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| Two injured in convenience store bombing in southern Thailand |
| 2009-02-04 |
| Two people were injured in a presumed insurgency-related bombing in the southern border province of Yala early Wednesday morning. Police believed the closed circuit television at an automated teller machine booth opposite the bomb scene may have recorded evidence to help identify the attackers. Police and a bomb squad from Yala provincial police station inspected the scene a 7-Eleven convenience store on Ruam Mitr Road in the Yala provincial seat. Police said the explosion occurred at 6.40am Wednesday morning and that two people were wounded and sent to a Yala hospital. One victim was a volunteer provincial Ranger while the other was a local resident. The glass wall of the 7-Eleven store was shattered by the explosion, and two pick-up trucks were also damaged. Police found electronic circuitry and fragments of iron rod scattered around the area which were retained as evidence. It was believed that the device was a three-to-five kilogramme home-made bomb hidden in a tin box and placed in a garbage basket in front of the shop. Police said the bombing occurred opposite an ATM booth with a closed circuit video camera which they believed had recorded the movement of attackers. |
| Posted by:ryuge |