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REGGIE

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  1. Thursday October 28, 03:58 PM

    South Thailand bomb kills 1, injures 13

    NARATHIWAT, Thailand (AFX) - A bomb killed one person and injured 13 in the mainly Muslim southern Thailand as anger mounted over the death of 85 protesters detained by the army.

    Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra had earlier called a meeting with senior security advisers after separatists in the south warned of revenge attacks. He vowed to address the public about the crisis tomorrow after concluding an investigation.

    The bomb was placed in a plastic bag, thrown into a bar in the town of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwait province and triggered by a mobile phone, said defence ministry spokesman Major General Palangkoon Klaharn.

    An outlawed separatist group had vowed revenge for the death of the demonstrators earlier this week, which sparked condemnation at home and abroad.

    'They will pay for what they have done, their cities will burn,' said a statement posted on the website of the Pattani United Liberation Organisation.

    On Monday, six protesters were shot dead in the chaotic demonstration outside Tak Bai police station in Narathiwat.

    Another 78 suffocated or were crushed to death after they were crammed into trucks for transport to an army base in neighbouring Pattani province.

    Another victim died of his injuries Wednesday.

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