The toddler was shot in the head and died immediately and her six-year-old sister remains in hospital after being shot in the back. No one else was in the house at the time of the incident.
Eight soldiers were also wounded in two separate attacks, police said. They said in Pattani's Kapho district two soldiers were hurt in a clash with militants as they tried to arrest them on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack at a local school early yesterday. The militants escaped the scene.
Shortly afterwards a roadside bomb explosion wounded six soldiers travelling on three motorcycles patrolling the Bannang Sata district of Yala province.
Today, a 37-year-old Muslim man was shot dead in a drive-by shooting in the Yarang district of Pattani province as he returned from taking his children to school.