Asia-Pacific

2 police injured in Thailand bomb blast

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-29 19:54

BANGKOK - Two police on patrol were injured when a bomb went off Saturday in Yaring district, Pattani, one of the southern most provinces of Thailand.

The two injured police were delivered to a hospital in Yaring already.

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The scene is now sealed off and investigation officials are currently inspecting. The cell phone signal was cut off for fearing of the insurgents may detonate the second bomb cached somewhere nearby to hurt the inspecting team.

Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces were part of an independent sultanate known as Patani until annexed in 1909 by predominantly Buddhist Thailand.

The attackers, believed to be separatists, often target Buddhists and Muslims associated with the Thai state such as police officers, soldiers, government officials and teachers.

More than 3,900 people have been killed in the past six years in these provinces.