Car Bomb in Thailand’s Muslim-Dominated South Wounds Dozens

At least 40 people are reported to have been injured in the blasts in Pattani, Southern Thailand.

Bangkok, 12 Sha’ban 1438/9 May 2017 (MINA) – Two bombs are believed to have been detonated at a shopping centre in Thailand, metro.co.uk reported.

One of them went off inside a shopping mall, according to reports, while another happened in the car park.

At least 40 people are reported to have been injured in the blasts in Pattani, Southern Thailand.

Police said the second bomb, in the car park, was as a result of a car bomb.

Pictures show the blackened scene of the supermarket with a huge plume of black smoke rising above the area.

Muslim militants fighting for a separate state in the south of predominantly Buddhist Thailand were suspected of carrying out a car-bomb attack on Tuesday outside a supermarket in the city of Pattani that wounded 60 people, authorities said.

A decades-old separatist insurgency in the largely ethnic Malay Muslim provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat has killed more than 6,500 people since 2004, according to independent monitoring group Deep South Watch. (T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)