| Police in Thailand's violence-hit south defused a bomb after a series of blasts outside hotels over the weekend left about a dozen people injured. Security guards discovered the device attached to a motorcycle petrol tank in a parking lot at a hotel in the southern province of Yala and it was made safe by a police bomb team after two hours. "Hotel staff informed us in the early morning that the motorbike had been left and it did not belong to any member of the hotel staff or guests," Colonel Parinya Kwanyuen, commander of Yala police, told AFP. The scare came after three blasts in Yala province late Saturday linked to a Muslim separatist insurgency which erupted in January and has since claimed at least 280 lives. "It's likely that it was the work of the same group who planted the three bombs that exploded on Saturday night because they used the same technique," Parinya added. |