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| Two dead, 30 wounded in bombing at southern Thai border town |
| 2008-08-22 |
| A bomb hidden in a car exploded at the scene of an earlier bombing, killing a reporter and a rescue worker responding to the first attack and wounded 30 other people in a southern Thai town bordering Malaysia, police said Friday. The blast took place in Sungai Kolok about 20 minutes after police, reporters and onlookers were lured to the scene Thursday night by an earlier, smaller bomb on a motorcycle that exploded without hurting anyone, said police Maj. Gen. Saritchai Anekwieng. Thai TV Channel 9 said one of its reporters was seriously injured in the blast and that the slain reporter worked for the country's biggest newspaper, Thai Rath. Also among the wounded, who included civilians, was the town's police chief, police said. Chakrit Chalardwanakit, a rescue worker from a local charity, died of his wounds Friday, Saritchai said. The bomb on the motorcycle, which was parked across from a restaurant, exploded at about 9:30 p.m. (1430 GMT), and the car bomb about 20 minutes later. The powerful bomb damaged buildings and vehicles within a 50-meter (50-yard) radius of the blast, police said. |
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