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Bomb attacks kill three in southern Thailand

Two bomb attacks have hit the south of Thailand, which has a big Muslim population, killing three people and injuring several others.
Bomb attacks kill three in southern Thailand ảnh 1Police investigate the bombing in Pattani on May 27 (Photo: AFP/VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Two bomb attacks have hit the south of Thailand, which has a big Muslimpopulation, killing three people and injuring several others.

On May 27, a motorcycle bomb went off at a busy market inNong Chik district of Pattani province, leaving a 14-year-old boy and a38-year-old woman dead, and wounding four military rangers.

The blast appeared to be a counterattack after authoritiesshot dead a fugitive suspected rebel leader in the neighbouring Yala province.The suspect was Abdulloh Lateh, 37, considered to be head of insurgents’operations in the Yaha district.

The bombing came a day after another bomb attack in Songkhlaprovince killed a police officer at a security checkpoint and injured threeothers.

Nearly 7,000 people, mostly civilians, have died in Thailand’sthree southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat since violence firstbroke out in early 2004.–VNA 
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