Bomb kills two, wounds 18 in Thai Muslim south
Source: Reuters
(Updates death toll, wounded) YALA, Thailand, Dec 5 (Reuters) - A bomb hidden in bags of vegetables killed two men and wounded 18 others at a market in Thailand's restive Muslim south on Tuesday, police said. The bomb exploded in a row of food stalls popular among Buddhist Thais living in the town of Yala in one of three southernmost provinces where a separatist insurgency has killed more than 1,800 people since 2004. Police said six people were wounded seriously. Two civilians died later in hospital. They said video from a closed-circuit camera showed four youths had hid the bomb next to a food stall before fleeing the scene on motorcycles. Insurgents staging attacks have never claimed responsibility for any violence or declared their goals. Thailand's military-appointed government has embarked on a peace drive in the predominately Muslim and Malay-speaking region which was an independent sultanate until the Buddhist-dominated Bangkok government annexed it a century ago. But the almost daily bomb and gun attacks on government offices and ambushes of state officials and civilians has continued.
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