Thai Muslim remembers bomb attack as king visited troubled south

Thai Muslim remembers bomb attack as king visited troubled south

By Surapan Boonthanom | YALA, THAILAND

YALA: -- Hayim Mohammed Tolema was 12 years old when Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej came to visit his southern province and a bomb planted by Muslim separatists went off nearby, wounding dozens.

People all over Thailand are mourning King Bhumibol, who died at the age of 88 on Thursday last week after 70 years on the throne.

In the predominantly Muslim south, which has for decades been plagued by violence by Muslim separatists opposed to the Thai state, people are also grieving, and some remembered the day, 39 years ago, that the king visited.

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