| A bomb blast wrecked a car in a mainly Muslim province of Thailand and authorities defused a fertiliser bomb less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visited the area, police said on Saturday. Police said no one was hurt in the blast soon after midnight, which blew up a car parked at a petrol pump, and shattered windows of nearby homes in the town of Narathiwat. Saturday's explosion took place about 350 metres from a hotel where Thaksin stopped for about an hour on Friday to meet local officials and residents. Police also defused an improvised bomb about four hours before it was timed to go off at a cooking gas warehouse where workers found it stashed behind gas cylinder tanks. |