In his weekly radio address Saturday morning, PrimeMinister Thaksin Shinawatra said that about 900 of the morethan 1,200 people in detention would be freed. He added that interrogations had found the remaindershould be held for further investigation and possibleprosecution. The announcement came after Thaksin promised Friday to setup an independent commission to investigate the deaths. Hesaid the detainees who died had been stacked on top of eachother in overcrowded trucks, face down. He said 78 had died, most of them from suffocation, by thetime the trucks arrived at detention camps. At least sevenothers died during the riot, apparently shot by securityforces. Thaksin said he regretted the deaths and blamed them onbad decisions by soldiers and a shortage of army trucks totransport the prisoners. Violence continued Saturday in the troubled region. Twopeople riding to work in Narathiwat province were killed bymotorcycle gunmen. The three southern Muslim-majority provinces inpredominantly Buddhist Thailand have been hit by a wave ofviolence that officials attribute to Muslim separatists.More than 400 people have been killed since January. On Friday, two bomb blasts in Yala province killed apolice officer and wounded 19 others.--SPA1447 Local Time 1147 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/214304