2 army rangers killed in troubled southern Thailand

HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Attackers in southern Thailand fatally shot two army rangers at close range Tuesday, police said, the latest killings in a region that has been plagued by a long-running Muslim separatist insurgency.

In a separate incident Tuesday in the neighboring province of Narathiwat, police Col. Satit Kasetkalam said attackers planted an improvised explosive device and remotely blew up the car of a soldier who was on patrol.