Two bombs exploded in troubled southern Thailand on Monday, injuring a soldier and a civil servant, police said, a day after the government scattered millions of paper doves as a peace gesture. The first explosion occurred at a gathering point for police and military personnel in Narathiwat, one of three Muslim-dominated southern provinces rocked by a separatist insurgency that has left more than 550 people dead this year, including as many as three at the weekend. “The bomb exploded around 7:00 am in Rangae district, injuring one soldier,” a policeman told AFP. About three hours later, a second bomb blew up at the side of the road some 800 metres (yards) from the site of the first explosion, lightly wounding a district official, according to the policeman. “We are investigating, but it was likely to have been a remote-control bomb,” he said. In the weekend’s violence, a retired chief prosecutor from Pattani province was gunned down at his shrimp farm Sunday while a policeman was killed in Narathiwat Saturday evening when his patrol unit was ambushed. Thai media on Monday reported that a 64-year-old grocer, Suthon Sridaeng, was shot dead at his shop in Pattani on Sunday evening but police were not immediately available to confirm the attack. Security forces also found and defused a bomb near the border with Malaysia just before the airdrop of millions of paper birds started on Sunday. Full Story
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