http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=3&u=/ap/20040428/ap_on_re_as/thailand_southern_violencePATTANI, Thailand - Scores of teenage militants armed with little more than machetes attacked security outposts across Thailand's troubled Muslim-dominated south Wednesday, but they were repulsed by police who had been tipped off to the offensive. At least 107 militants were killed.
The last of the raids was quashed when police fired tear gas into a mosque and then killed 11 fighters who tried to escape. Three policemen and two soldiers were also slain in the fighting.
It was the worst violence in a region that has seen dozens of people killed in near-daily of attacks this year. The government has blamed Islamic separatists who have sought to carve out a homeland in the Muslim-majority south of this predominantly Buddhist country for decades.
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