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Southern Thai mosque bombed
A bomb was thrown into a mosque in Thailand's rebellious Muslim-majority south on Thursday, wounding at least 14 worshippers, a senior policeman said. About 100 people had gathered for morning prayers in the mosque, located in an area under curfew since an attack by suspected insurgents on a minibus that killed eight Buddhists last month, Major-General Paitoon Chuchaiya said. Few other details were immediately available, he told Channel 3 television, on a night of arson attacks on schools often targeted by insurgents as a symbol of the far-away government in Bangkok. Eight schools, two teachers' houses and two clinics were set ablaze in the Yaha district of Yala province and a neighboring area, said Paitoon, the provincial police chief. Yaha was put under curfew last month after the minibus attack, which outraged the country's overwhelming Buddhist majority. Posted by: ryuge 2007-04-05 |
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