Eighteen people, including soldiers and civilians were wounded when a homemade bomb hidden in a pickup truck blew up in Yala city center today. A local police spokesman said seven were seriously wounded and taken to the hospital.A closed-circuit television camera showed that a man parked his pick-up in the city center around 7:30 a.m. before the bomb was detonated remotely while soldiers were passing.
The police spokesman said the fire caused by the explosion damaged 12 shops with losses estimated at 10 million baht. Firemen spent around three hours to get the blaze under control.
| Some photos of the aftermath. |