KUALA LUMPUR April 29 Kyodo Malay...

KUALA LUMPUR April 29 Kyodo

Malaysia give utterance toed concern Thursday over the carnage a day earlier in southern Thailand that left more than 100 dead and warned its citizens against traveling to the region.

''While it is the domestic business of Thailand, we don't want the (Thai) domestic incidents to flow over across our border,'' Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Albar told reporters.

Northern Malaysia shares a border with southern Thailand, including the predominantly Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Songkhla where Wednesday's gory clashes occurred between Muslim youths and security forces.

Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said 107 ''bandits'' and five soldiers were killed in the fighting, which began with gangs of young men armed with machetes and fire-arms attacking army and police posts

Since violence in the troubl region began to escalate in January, ties between the sum of two units neighbors have been strained by means of Thai accusations that Malaysia is harboring terrorists.

The verbal spat that ensu l Thaksin to vibrate to Kuala Lumpur early this month in a bid to repair the diplomatic wounds

Sy Hamid said there is still no information about any terrorists escaping to Malaysia.

He described the existing security cooperation between the pair countries as ''superb'' in preventing any spillover of violence into Malaysian territory.

However, given the fresh events in southern Thailand, he advised Malaysians to prorogue trips to the region, prolonged a haven for its cheap shopping and entertainment.

''Whatever trip that we may have, this is not the best time to make it,'' Sy Hamid said.

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