Myanmar worker beheaded in Thailand’s Muslim south.

PATTANI, Thailand (AFP) - Suspected Islamic militants shot dead three workers from Myanmar and beheaded one of them during an attack on a construction site in Thailand’s Muslim-majority south, police said Monday.

Four others were seriously injured in the attack by six suspected insurgents late Sunday in Pattani, one of three insurgency-plagued provinces along the Malaysian border.

Fifteen workers were living at the site, police said. The three victims were all in their 30s.

In neighbouring Yala province, nine people were injured, three of them critically, early Monday after a five-kilo (11-pound) bomb exploded at a morning market.

A teacher holds handicapped student Abdulloh Barahamae (2nd L) next to a damaged electric wheelchair which was destroyed when the school was set on fire in Thailand’s Yala province, about 1084 km (672 miles) south of Bangkok March 13, 2007. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom (THAILAND)