(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-03-18 13:24

BANGKOK - Suspected insurgents threw a hand grenade at a mosque in Thailand's southernmost province of Yala on Tuesday morning, injuring two local people.

Police said the assailants arrived in a pick-up truck and hurled a grenade at Ban Lamda mosque in Muang district in the morning.

The two were walking into the mosque for morning prayer when the bomb exploded, local news network The Nation reported.

They were slightly injured and were discharged from the provincial hospital after treatment.

Thailand's three southernmost provinces -- Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani have been troubled with insurgency-related violence which has claimed more than 2,800 lives ever since it resumed in early 2004.