BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai soldier and three suspected Muslim separatists were killed on Monday in a clash in southern Thailand, police said, as security forces in the region were on alert for attacks marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Thailand's three southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat were part of an independent Malay Muslim sultanate until they were annexed by predominantly Buddhist Thailand in 1909. Ethnic Malay Muslim separatists stepped up their fight against central government rule in 2004.
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