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| Car bomb injures seven in Thai south |
| 2010-12-30 |
[Straits Times] A CAR bomb went kaboom!in southern Thailand on Wednesday, injuring seven people, police said, a day after the government moved to end emergency rule in another part of the restive region. The makeshift device, made of about 15kg of explosives packed into a fire extinguisher, exploded by mobile phone in front of a highway department office in Narathiwat province, authorities said. They said three government officials and four villagers were hurt in the blast, which blew the roof off the car. In another incident in neighbouring Yala province, suspected bully boyz detonated a roadside kaboom and tried to ambush patrolling security officials, although nobody was hurt, police said. Suspected Islamic gunnies have waged a violent campaign in the region since early 2004, leaving more than 4,400 people dead, both Mohammedans and Buddhists. Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the latest unrest would not change his government's plan to lift emergency rule in a pocket of the troubled deep south as a test case for the rest of the Mohammedan-majority region. |
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