Posted on 05/06/2014 3:42:43 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
AT YAI, Thailand -- Bombs exploded at a police station and a convenience store in a tourist city in Thailand's violence-plagued south Tuesday, injuring nine people, police said.
The first bomb exploded in front of a 7-Eleven store near a school in Hat Yai city, wounding two men and three women, police Col. Passakorn Klanwan said.
The second explosion went off about 15 minutes later in the parking lot at the main Hat Yai police station, injuring four others, he said.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/05/06/4100476/9-injured-in-bombings-in-thailands.html#storylink=cpy
Let me guess.
The restive population is Moslem.
Yep.
1) Yep, the population is Muslim.
2) It borders Muslim Malaysia.
3) There's oil and gas discovered offshore that Malaysia would likely desire.
Four separate bomb blasts hit Hat Yai district of Songkhla on Tuesday causing injuries to five people. A fifth bomb found near the entrance to apartments inside Prince of Songkhla Hospital was safely defused.
The first bombs separately went off at about 1.30pm in front of 7 Eleven convenient store on Ponpichai Road and near the police flats opposite Hat Yai police station. The blast at the police flats damaged many vehicles as it the bomb had been placed near the police station's parking area.
Fire fighters rushed to the scene to control the flames caused by the explosions. Later reports said two more bomb blasts hit an area near Hat Yai railway station as well as close to Robinson department store.
A further bomb was found near the flats in Prince of Sonkhla Hospital but the bomb squad as able to defuse it in time.
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Yes indeed they are.
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