A total of 33 people were killed and 41 others injured in 55 incidents of violence in the far South in January, the Deep South Watch Centre at Prince of Songkla University, Pattani campus, revealed on Friday, Bangkok Post online reported.

The violence involved car, motorcycle and roadside bombs, ambushes, drive-by shootings and arson, the centre reported.

Of the death total, 17 victims were ordinary villagers and village chiefs (4), village defence volunteers (4), soldiers (3), state employees (2), a policeman, one member of a tambon administration organisation, and a teenager aged about 15.

The injuries included 16 soldiers, 14 villagers, 6 defence volunteers, one teacher, one student, one village headman, one state employee and one teenager, the centre said.

There were no details of insurgent casualties.

Since the resurgence of insurgency in 2004, around 11,000 violent incidents instigated by secessionists in the Muslim- dominant southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat happened, with almost 5,000 people killed and nearly 8,000 injured.