March 20, 200520 yr I hope it's ok to post this here. Couldn't see any mention of it in the news clipping section. BANGKOK : At least 14 people including 10 security forces were wounded in two near simultaneous bomb blasts in southern Thailand, rocked by an Islamic separatist insurgency. The first bomb was detonated at 9:23 am Sunday (0223 GMT) at a park pavilion in the capital of Yala province shortly after policemen searched a group of four young men. The explosion injured seven policemen and the four men, police said. Seven minutes later in neighbouring Narathiwat province, a bomb exploded outside an army checkpoint in Cho-ai Rong district, wounding three soldiers, including one seriously. "The bomb was an attack on officials as the area is one where the military gather for work," a police officer told AFP. At least 630 people have been killed in the predominantly Buddhist kingdom's Muslim-majority south since January 2004 in what authorities have described as a separatist insurgency. - AFP
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