MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti) - The death toll in Monday's attack at a mosque in southern Thailand has reached 12 as two people died in hospitals overnight, the Bangkok Post reported on Tuesday.
Gunmen armed with assault rifles opened fire "indiscriminately" at the mosque in the Narathiwat province where around 50 people were attending evening prayers, the paper quoted the army and police as saying.
The paper added that 11 people were still hospitalized, with four in critical condition.
A police official said earlier that the local imam had been killed and that that up to five people had been involved in the attack.
Army spokesman Col. Parinya Chaidilok said, however, there were two attackers, one entering through the main door of the building and the other coming in by a side door before opening fire.
Authorities have in the past blamed most of the violence in the country's south on shadowy, separatist Muslim militants.
