Two Bombs Kill 1, Wound 30 in Thai Muslim South
BANGKOK: -- Two bombs exploded almost simultaneously at an airport and a supermarket in Thailand's restive Muslim south Sunday, killing one person and wounding more than 30 others, police and witnesses said.
The two bombs in the southern commercial town of Hat Yai were the latest attacks in a region where more than 600 people have died in 15 months of violence which the government has blamed on Muslim separatists.
"One person was killed at the airport," Police Major General Surapol Tongprasert told Reuters. A Hat Yai hospital official said they were treating more than 30 wounded from the two bomb attacks.
An airport limousine driver told Reuters he saw 20 people wounded, including a fellow driver whose legs had been blown off.
"I saw it with my own eyes. The bomb cut off the legs of one of my friends," driver Purich Raebenmud told Reuters.
Another eight people were wounded when a second bomb exploded at the Carrefour superstore, about 20 km (12 miles) from the airport, Bangkok's FM 100 radio reported.
Police said a third bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a hotel in the town of Songkhla, 40 km north of Hat Yai, but there were no reports of casualties.
--Reuters 2005-04-03
Hopelijk gaat Thaksin zijn politiek ten opzichte van Zuid-Thailand snel ten bate van deze situatie aanpassen zoals hij laatst beloofde want zijn actuele aanpak lijkt niet echt te helpen..
Een Bom bij het Hat Yai vliegveld, een Carrefour supermarkt en een hotel in Songklha... 600 doden in de laatste 15 maanden is nogal wat!