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BANGKOK — A pilot was killed and seven passengers hospitalised Tuesday when a Bangkok Airways jet skidded and hit an old control tower as it landed on Thailand's resort island of Ko Samui, the airline said. Thailand's public health ministry said 42 people were injured in the crash. Among the injured, Bangkok Airways' president said four passengers -- one Italian, two British and one Swiss -- were seriously injured. "The flight landed on the south runway and skidded off on the left side before it hit an abandoned air control tower. The aircraft was damaged," Puttipong Prasattong Osot told reporters. "The captain was killed and the co-pilot was evacuated from the aircraft and is now hospitalised," he said. Another six passengers had also been taken to hospital, with broken legs among the injuries, but everyone on board had been safely evacuated, he said. "There are four passengers seriously wounded, one Italian, two British, one Swiss," he added...

Tuesday, July 28, 2009 ,YALA: Suspected separatist insurgents in Thailand's troubled south shot dead four civilians while a remote-controlled bomb wounded five other people, police said Tuesday. Militants gunned down a Buddhist man and his wife in an ambush early Tuesday while they were travelling by motorbike to tap rubber in restive Pattani province, police said. As police investigated the shooting, militants detonated a bomb hidden beneath the bodies of the couple, wounding three policemen and two villagers, they added. Also in Pattani a gunman posing as a wedding guest shot dead a Muslim man at a marriage ceremony on Monday evening, police said. Earlier Monday, a painter was shot dead in a drive-by shooting as he rode a motorbike to a local teashop, also in Pattani.