BANGKOK, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Sixty-five admitted Muslim insurgents Wednesday surrendered to Thai government authorities in Narathiwat, one of three southern border provinces experiencing a spate of insurgency, the Thai News Agency reported.

    Pracha Terat, Governor of Narathiwat, presided over a surrender ceremony Wednesday morning.

    The ceremony was one of the largest ceremonies of its kind since the authorities began to apply 'peaceful' measures to encourage militants, especially young men, to reject their support for the insurgents.

    Meanwhile, following the latest bombing in nearby Yala Province leaving one soldier seriously injured Tuesday night, Narathiwat police have intensified security at all areas venerable to violence, including government offices, residential areas, markets and others, for fear of possible similar incidents.

    One more insurgency-related death was reported in Yala's Ra-ngae District Wednesday morning.

    Doromae Maseng, 43, was shot dead while riding a motorcycle from his home by two unidentified gunmen.

    Local Villagers, officials, schoolteachers, and police and military personnel are often targeted in Thailand's ethnic insurgency in its Muslim-majority southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat.

    The continuing violence has claimed more than 1,300 lives since the renewed insurgency flared up in early 2004. Enditem