BANGKOK : In multiple bomb attacks in Thailand’s southern province of Yala, one person was injured , police said on Saturday.
Around 13 small explosions struck the town of Yala late on Friday on roadsides in front of convenience stores, shops, a market, an animal hospital and a car care shop, said deputy police spokesman Kissana Phathanacharoen.
Police on Saturday found three unexploded improvised explosive devices, made of spray cans and metal pipes with timers attached.
A decades-old separatist insurgency in predominantly Buddhist Thailand’s largely ethnic Malay-Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has claimed the lives of more than 7,300 people since 2004, according to the Deep South Watch group which monitors the violence.
Rebel groups have called for independence for these provinces bordering Malaysia, which were part of a sultanate called Patani annexed by Thailand in 1909 as part of a treaty with Britain.
