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24 August 2016, 09:47

Car bomb kills 1, injures 29 in the south of Thailand

BANGKOK, 24 August (BelTA - Anadolu Agency) – A powerful car bomb has left one person dead and 29 others injured in front of a hotel in Thailand's majority Muslim far South, less than two weeks after a series of explosions rocked upper regions of the southern peninsula.

An investigator at the Pattani province police station told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday, “the first bomb exploded at 10.50 p.m. (1550GMT) in the parking lot of the Southern hotel in Pattani.”

Pol. Lieut. Sirisak Wangkulam said, “25 minutes after, a bomb hidden in an ambulance pick-up truck stationed in front of the hotel exploded, causing serious damages to the hotel entrance and to restaurants, karaoke shops and massage parlors nearby.”

The explosion killed a 25-year-old man from northeast Ubon Ratchatani province who was working at the hotel restaurant.

Local police consider the car bomb to be the work of southern separatists, who have been waging a decades-old insurgency against the Thai central state.

Regular bomb attacks and drive-by shootings occur in the three majority Malay Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, where more than 7,000 people have been killed since January 2004 when insurgency flared up.

Entertainment places such as karaoke shops, bars and massage parlors have often been targeted.

The bombings late Tuesday occurred less than two weeks after a series of deadly explosions shook upper regions of Thailand's southern peninsula, located hundreds of kilometers north of Pattani, killing four and injuring more than 30 others.

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