Bomb attack at a tea shop in Yala wounds 14

June 18, 2007 : Last updated 04:11 pm (Thai local time)

A bomb exploded Monday at a busy teashop in Yala's Banang Sta district, injuring 14 people, two of whom seriously.

Police believed the bomb was hidden inside the teashop that is frequent by local residents in this violent prone district where daily roadside bomb attacks and gunfights between insurgents and government forces has become daily occurrences.

Initial investigation showed that the bomb was hidden in the teashop which and set off remotely.

More than 2,300 people have been killed in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since January 2004 when an insurgency erupted.

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A bomb exploded Monday at a teashop in Yala province, wounding 14 people, while two other bombs left three injured in Narathiwat, police said.

The Yala bomb was hidden in a teashop, located near a government school in troubled Bannang Sata district. The explosion seriously wounded four people, Pol Lt Yothin Wanthawee said.

In next-door Narathiwat province, two bomb blasts wounded two soldiers and a government employee

in separate insurgent attacks.