| Thai police said on Sunday that a bomb blast killed a Marine and injured six others in Narathiwat province, the Thai News Agency reported. The soldiers were playing football when a time bomb was exploded, the police said, adding the explosion occurred at about the same time Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was presiding over the inaugural match of a new football league in Yala. Thaksin visited the southern provinces of Pattani and Yala Sunday to help boost morale among the residents and kick off the inaugural match of a new football league in Yala. |