Four injured as car bombs explode in Yala

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Four injured as car bombs explode in Yala

By The Nation

 

 

Four people were injured when two car bombs exploded at the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre in Yala province.

 

One car was destroyed in the explosions.

 

The incident occurred on Tuesday (March 17) at 11am when journalists were expected to visit the centre to enquire local officials about the Covid-19 situation in the province. 

 

 

The first explosion drew several people to the scene and soon after, the second bomb exploded.

 

Shrapnel from the second explosion left three journalists and a policeman injured. They were sent immediately to Yala Hospital.

Police have cordoned off the area.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30384239

 

-- © Copyright The Nation Thailand 2020-03-17

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[Chazar]

scum

[snoop1130]

Two bombs explode outside Thai government office in Yala, wounding 18

 

A car bomb scene is seen after an explosion in front of the government's Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre in Yala, Thailand March 17, 2020. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two bombs exploded in front of a government office in Thailand’s insurgency-hit southern Yala province on Tuesday, wounding 18 people, a security official said.

 

The explosions took place in front of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC), a Thai government body that oversees the administration of three mostly Malay-Muslim majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala where an insurgency since 2004 has killed some 7,000 people.

 

SBPAC was hosting a government meeting on the region’s response to the outbreak of the coronavirus prior to the explosions.

 

“The first bomb was a grenade throne to the area outside the SBPAC office fence to draw people out,” Colonel Pramote Prom-in, a military regional security spokesman told Reuters.

 

“Then a car bomb about 10 meters from the first explosion went off. This was hidden in a pick-up truck where the perpetrators parked near the fence. Eighteen are wounded and no one died,” he said.

 

The car bomb exploded ten minutes after the first explosion and among the wounded were five reporters, five police officers, two soldiers and other bystanders, Pramote said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. Such claims are rare following attacks in the region.

 

The population of the provinces, which belonged to an independent Malay Muslim sultanate before Thailand annexed them in 1909, is 80 percent Muslim, while the rest of the country is overwhelmingly Buddhist. Conflict has flared on and off for decades as insurgent groups fought a guerrilla war to demand independence for the area.

 

A peace dialogue between the Thai government and the main insurgent group, the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) has resumed this year, after the group pull out of the process in 2014.

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-03-17

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[RichardColeman]

Thailand or Mogadishu ? Same bunch of nut cases though

[Tops]

Just a mind spinning thing. Why not use Yala as Covid 19 quarantine area.

Evacuate the non muslims first and replace them with .... Close the borders so no one can get out !

Problem will solve..

[hotchilli]

18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

The population of the provinces, which belonged to an independent Malay Muslim sultanate before Thailand annexed them in 1909, is 80 percent Muslim, while the rest of the country is overwhelmingly Buddhist.

80% muslim population I'd let them have it back, obviously they didn't take kindly to being annexed.

[Catoni]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

80% muslim population I'd let them have it back, obviously they didn't take kindly to being annexed.

Nobody living there today was living when it was a sultanate. They are perfectly free to live there and take part in elections. 

     Should Canada and the U.S. give North America back to the Indians and all the whites move to Europe?