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Buddhist beheaded in Muslim south Thailand
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The militants, speaking in the Malay dialect which most Muslims in the region use, told the group to run away, but the Thai-speaking Buddhist did not move because he didn't understand the warning, the officer told Reuters by telephone.


He was shot three times in the head, which was then decapitated and taken to a nearby village, the officer said.


More than 700 people have been killed in the unrest in the Muslim-majority southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani, scene of a low-key separatist insurgency in the 1970s and 1980s.


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