FEARING revenge attacks, the army poured reinforcements into southern Thailand yesterday as grieving families buried their dead and rights groups and Muslim preachers condemned the killings of more than 100 suspected Islamic militants.

Fearing revenge attacks, the army poured reinforcements into southern Thailand today as grieving families buried their dead today and rights groups and Muslim preachers condemned the killings of more than 100 suspected Islamic militants.

Thai police shot and killed more than 70 machete-wielding militants who launched simultaneous pre-dawn raids on security outposts today, in the heaviest fighting yet in the troubled Muslim-dominated south, officials said.