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people since 2004, according to independent monitoring group Deep South
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Thailand: Car bomb wounds 42 at supermarket in troubled south
A car bomb reportedly injured 42 in southern Thailand. Source: @TerrorEvents.
A car bomb reportedly injured 42 in southern Thailand. Source: @TerrorEvents.
9th May 2017
MUSLIM militants fighting for a separate state in the south of predominantly Buddhist Thailand were suspected of carrying out a car-bomb attack on Tuesday outside a supermarket in the city of Pattani that wounded 42 people, police said.
MUSLIM militants fighting for a separate state in the south of predominantly Buddhist Thailand were suspected of carrying out a car-bomb attack on Tuesday outside a supermarket in the city of Pattani that wounded 42 people, police said.
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Two of the 42 wounded were in a critical condition, authorities said.
The first car bomb in Pattani since August destroyed the front of a
Big-C supermarket, scattering debris over a wide area and sending up a
column of black smoke.
Muslim insurgents were suspected of the attack, said Rewat Srichantub,
Pattani’s deputy police chief. The bomber was believed to have fled the
scene before the explosion, he said.
Attacks in Thailand‘s
deep south, near the border with Muslim-majority Malaysia, have
intensified this year. Six army rangers were killed in an attack last
month.
The government recently rejected a conditional offer for peace talks
from one of the main insurgent groups, the Barisan Revolusi Nasional,
which demanded international mediation or observation. – Reuters