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| Six wounded in market bombing in southern Thailand |
| 2013-03-02 |
| Two bombings occurred in Narithiwat province on Friday, a day after the signing of a consensus agreement by National Security Council secretary-general Paradorn Pattanatabut and BRN liaison office official Hassan Talib in Kuala Lumpur. The bombings were not a prelude to the failure of the peace talks agreement signed with the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday, said Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Friday. Ms Yingluck said people should not jump to the immediate conclusion that the government's efforts to arrange negotiations would prove futile. Narathiwat's Muang district was hit by two bombings during a six-hour time span on Friday. One soldier and five civilians were wounded when an explosive device hidden inside a motorcycle exploded at 5:50 a.m. The blast occurred at a fresh market in Muang Narathiwat municipality. Witnesses said that a youth parked the motorcycle in front of the morning market, near a pickup truck used by soldiers guarding the market, and then disappeared into the crowd. Five minutes later a bomb hidden on the bike went off, wounding a soldier and five civilians, one of whom was in critical condition. The explosion also damaged six motorcycles and two pickup trucks parked nearby. Police blamed separatist Around noon, a large retail store, nearby shophouses and motorcycles were damaged by a car bomb blast in the district. The 20kg explosive device concealed inside a pickup truck parked in front of Jip Heng shop, went off opposite the Muang Narathiwat police station. No one was injured or killed in the blast. Police blamed the bombings on an |
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