Bomb Kills 2 In Thailand

[daveb1]

Saw this story reported on the wires this morning in the UK

Name: THAILAND

Date: 10-05-2006.

Time: 05:40

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A bomb's exploded near a market in Thailand - killing two Buddhist teachers.

The blast went off outside a tea shop in Pattani in the south of the country.

Fourteen shoppers were injured when the bomb - hidden in a motorcycle - exploded.

[Maejo Man]

Three dead from shootings the other day, and another bomb blast last week. Hardly news any more, sad to report. These articles don't make the headlines they should do in Thailand, as it's a complete embarressment to the government that can't seem to put an end to the violence. Even with a massive military and police presence there, it won't go away.

[stoneman]

This same story along with film also made the headlines on the Australian ABC news...And I would imagine that it will be no better than page 3 news in tomorrow's BKK Post or the Nation...

[Maejo Man]

This same story along with film also made the headlines on the Australian ABC news...And I would imagine that it will be no better than page 3 news in tomorrow's BKK Post or the Nation...

It did actually make the Post, but a dozen lines of copy not saying much at all WHY?

Bomb kills 3 in Pattani market

(Bangkokpost.com, Agencies) - A bomb exploded this morning at the popular Pattani central market, killing three customers in a tea shop and wounding 13 other people, including six soldiers.

The dead included two Buddhist women teachers and a soldier.

Police said the bomb was hidden in a parked motorcycle, and was touched off as a military truck stopped at the crowded food stall.

Pattani deputy police superintendent, Lt Col Somporn Misuk said the explosion was apparently triggered by a mobile phone.

It was just the latest violence in the majority-Muslim deep South, where more than 1,200 people have died in clashes, ambushes, shootings, explosions and beheadings since January 2004.

The region includes three provinces - Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala - which border Malaysia.

A separatist struggle has simmered in the area for decades, fuelled by the local population's sense of religious and cultural alienation from the predominantly Buddhist Thai state.