In Thailand, nine people, including six military personnel, have been killed in two days of bomb and gun attacks in insurgency-plagued southern provinces. According to Police, in the latest incident, three soldiers were killed when a bomb blast ripped through their patrol vehicle in Yala province yesterday. A 46-year-old Muslim village leader also died on the way to hospital after she was shot on in a drive-by shooting in Mayo district in Pattani province. A roadside bomb late Thursday killed three military rangers on patrol in Ruso district in Narathiwat, one of three troubled Muslim-majority provinces near the Malaysian border. A security volunteer and a deputy village headman travelling with them also died in the attack by suspected Islamist separatists, the police said.