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Three Simultaneous bomb attacks wound 9 in Thai Muslim south
YALA, Thailand (Reuters) - Three bombs exploded in Thailand's restive
Muslim south on Thursday, police said, wounding at least nine people
in a region where more than 600 people have died in 17 months of
violence.
Thai Muslims burn an effigy of President Bush. Thailand's largely
Malay-speaking Muslim majority southern region, where separatists
fought low-key insurgencies in the 1970s and 1980s, has been rocked
by almost daily blasts and killings since the violence erupted in
January 2004. This is one of the hotspots where the frontiers of
civilization straddle the Muslim world. Other such frontiers are the
West Bank, Kosovo, Kashmir, Chechnya, Mindanao, Malaku (in
Indonesia), Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan. Photo Credits: Ananova ____________
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The first bomb went off around 7:30 a.m. at a food stall near a train
station in Songkhla province, wounding three people.
An hour later, a second blast outside the home of the provincial
chief judge in Yala province wounded five police officers, police
said.
A third bomb hidden under a pickup truck parked near Yala's City Hall
wounded a female passenger, a witness said.
"The victim, a Yala health worker, looks seriously injured and was
rushed to hospital," the witness said.
The largely Malay-speaking southern region, where separatists fought
low-key insurgencies in the 1970s and 1980s, has been rocked by
almost daily blasts and killings since the violence erupted in
January 2004.
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