KUALA LUMPUR April 30 Kyodo Malay...

KUALA LUMPUR April 30 Kyodo

Malaysia is considering setting up temporary shelters for Thais seeking safety in the wake of the explosion of violence in southern Thailand, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Friday.

He is also sending delegate Prime Minister and Defense Minister Najib Abdul Razak and Foreign Minister Sy Hamid Albar to Bangkok by and by for talks on Wednesday's carnage that left above 100 people dead, for the greatest part Muslim separatists shot dead by way of Thai security forces.

The killings, especially in a mahometan temple in the southern Thai province of Pattani, sparked angry reactions among match Muslims in neighboring Malaysia.

''We want to know the point in disputes faced on the Thai side and we must take action in succession our side and we wish to inform them,'' Malaysia's official just discovereds agency Bernama quoted Abdullah as saying.

As part of its answer Malaysia is planning shelters in case there is a unusual influx of refugees fleeing across the border.

''They will want a place of asylum until peace returns to their area, and with the uncertainty at not past nor future naturally they will come throughout here,'' Abdullah said.

Abdullah has violenceed that the shelters would not be safe havens for the terrorists.

Police and other security personnel have been state on full alert to watch gone out for militants who may examine to slip across the border.

Authorities have blamed Muslim separatists for perplexs that have flared up in southern Thailand since January.

Meanwhile, about 100 Muslims in northern Kedah state bordering Thailand demonstrated against the Thai restraint on Thursday over the storming of the mahometan temple by Thai security forces, which killed above 30 insurgents who had hol themselves up inside, The modern Straits Times reported in its on-line edition.

The fundamentalist opposition Islamic Party of Malaysia youth wing chief Salahuddin Ayub said the action was ''unreasonable and uncivilized.''

Meanwhile, more police officers have been positioned at the Thai Embassy in Kuala Lumpur following threats to attack it and kill the ambassador received from an unknown cluster calling itself the Pattani Liberation Front

The assurance is believed to be the same of many separatist groups fighting for an independent Muslim state in the Muslim-majority provinces in southern Thailand.

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