A powerful car bomb exploded at a market in Pattani province yesterday, killing six people and injuring scores of people, including security officers who were lured to the bomb scene.The bomb went off about 12:30 p.m. at Taluban municipality market in Sai Buri district. Several shop-houses were set ablaze. The blast killed six people, two who died instantly at the scene, and injured almost 50 people, including police, defense volunteers and civilians. Of the wounded, 10 were seriously injured.
The bomb went off when a team of police and defense volunteers were lured to a gold shop, opposite a motorcycle repair shop where the car with the bomb was parked.
The officers went to the gold shop after a phone tip that an unknown number of armed men had earlier opened fire on the shop, which is only 100 meters from the police station.
The explosion caused damage to several shophouses. Many cars and motorcyles caught fire.
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