A powerful car bomb in Thailand's Muslim dominated south killed a border policeman and wounded 12 other people, while "The bomb was hidden in a pickup truck and detonated near a number of parked police trucks as officers bought breakfast in Yala, the main town in the restive province of the same name," the police said. "There is a large area of devastation," said one senior police official. "At least one border patrol unit officer is dead and 12 people are wounded, including two policemen," he added. Three cars including the pickup truck that apparently contained the bomb were completely burned out at the scene, witnesses said. Police said the bomb contained an estimated 50 kilograms of explosives.
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The south has seen a sudden upsurge in attacks, with a motorcycle bomb in Pattani on Thursday wounding 27 people and a car bomb outside a restaurant, in Narathiwat province, on August 25 injuring at least 42.
Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who is in charge of national security, urged people not to bow to militants who were trying to "terrify the people." "I have instructed officials to arrest these militants who have repeatedly mounted attacks but are still at large," he told reporters in Bangkok.
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A village headman and his son were shot dead in PattaniÂ’s Panare district early Friday afternoon, Panare police chief Pol Col Naluecha Suwanlapha said. Two men on a motorcycle attacked Isma-air Vaesateh, 42, head of Tha Nam village, and his son as they arrived at the village mosque. They were pronounced dead at Panare hospital. Police blamed