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The elderly man, two women aged 60 and 44, and two men aged 62 and 53 were shot when up to six unknown assailants with assault riffles sprayed bullets into a crowd in front of the shop in insurgency plagued Pattani province. A further three people were wounded in the shooting spree. Police, who had previously said the Buddhist villagers had gathered for early morning exercises, said they were in fact buying food to give to monks as part of a religious ceremony. "The attack is believed to be the work of militants," local police commander Colonel Wallop Chamnong arsa said. In a separate attack, a 49 year old Muslim rubber tapper was found dead with his throat cut in Pattani on Thursday morning. Police said he had also been hit over the head with a blunt object. Shadowy Islamic insurgents ha…