- Title: THAILAND: Motorcycle bomb injures 28 in Thai south
- Date: 20th October 2009
- Summary: YALA, THAILAND (OCTOBER 19, 2009) (REUTERS) VILLAGERS HELPING INJURED PEOPLE OUT OF BOMB BLAST SITE VILLAGERS CARRYING INJURED PEOPLE TO PICK-UP TRUCK CAR LEAVING INJURED PEOPLE ON GROUND WAITING FOR AMBULANCE CAR LEAVING VILLAGERS RUNNING TO MARKET TO HELP INJURED PEOPLE PEOPLE LOOKING ON INJURED PEOPLE BLOOD STAIN AND SHOES ON GROUND STREET NAME DAMAGED MOTORC
- Embargoed: 4th November 2009 12:00
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- Location: Thailand
- Country: Thailand
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVA1ZL90K08RCJ49IGYETSL5W8RY
- Story Text: At least 28 people were wounded when a bomb exploded in a busy market in Thailand's restive south on Monday (October 19), in the latest attack in the Muslim-dominated region.
Police said two suspects hid a bomb in a motorcycle in the morning, and parked it at a crowded market in Yala, one of three provinces bordering Malaysia and part of a region plagued by separatist violence.
One soldier and three civilians were seriously wounded when the bomb exploded, and police said 24 others were wounded.
The victims were taken to a nearby hospital.
The blast follows a recent surge in the number of bombings targeting civilians, troop convoys and army checkpoints in the once independent Malay Muslim region.
The rubber-rich provinces, just a few hours drive from some of country's biggest tourist hotspots, were annexed by Buddhist Thailand in 1909 and separatist tensions have simmered ever since, fuelled by army crackdowns and the government's failure to arrest those behind the killings of Muslims.
More than 3,600 people, Muslims and minority Buddhists, have been killed in the rubber-rich regions since 2004.
Despite deploying tens of thousands of police, soldiers and security guards in the region, the government has made little progress towards quelling the unrest, for which no group has claimed responsibility. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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