Bombings in Thai south kill 3, wound dozens
PATTANI, Thailand (AP) — Thailand's military said more than a dozen coordinated bomb attacks in the country's insurgency-plagued south Tuesday killed at least three people and injured dozens.
The military's Internal Security Operations Command said suspected Muslim insurgents put bombs at 16 locations across the southern town of Yala, including a school, shops and hotels. Authorities defused five of the bombs.
Jihad and poverty go hand in hand.
The agency said three people were killed, 14 severely injured and 31 slightly injured. The explosions also caused power outages.
More than 4,700 people have been killed in Thailand's southernmost Muslim-dominated provinces since an Islamic insurgency flared in 2004.
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