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The insurgents attacked a small patrol guarding a railway in Yala province with gunfire, killing two of the four soldiers, said provincial police chief Col Narasak Chiengsuk. In separate violence, at least three assailants sprayed dozens of bullets into a house in Narathiwat province, killing two men, said police Lt Vorapong Klomsakun. Also Wednesday, at least seven people were injured when a bomb exploded near a market in the same province, police said. Police said it was one of six bombs that exploded in several areas of the province Wednesday morning. More than 2,300 people have been killed in the predominantly Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces since early 2004, when a separatist movement flared up after a lull of more than two decades. (AP)

Asian Security Forum Acts to Limit Spread of Nuclear Weapons

Asia's top security forum has decided to create a new group to help prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction, officials said Wednesday. Members of the Asean Regional Forum approved the formation of the body after it was proposed by a group of countries including the United States and Indonesia, said M C Abad, an ARF official. ARF, which consists of 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and 17 other countries, is holding its annual meeting on Thursday. However, lower-level officials began discussing the terms of reference, or details, of the nonproliferation body on Wednesday, Abad said. Abad said North Korea's nuclear weapons program is among the areas the new group can examine. ARF members include the US, China, North and South Korea, Russia and Japan, which are involved in six-nation talks on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. ARF earlier vowed to work with the International Atomic Energy Agency and other watchdogs to strengthen international nuclear and chemical safeguards and boost ARF members' national mechanisms against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. (AP)