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Four bombs explode in Southern Thailand
Bangkok, Aug. 3 (AP): Four bombs today went off almost simultaneously in a southern Thai province, but no deaths or injuries were immediately reported.
The nature of the targets in Narathiwat province - three of them government offices - indicated they were probably part of the ongoing violence that officials have attributed to Islamic separatists.
More than 320 people have been killed this year in a wave of violence in the predominantly Muslim southern provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani. Muslims there have long complained about neglect and discrimination by the Central Government of mostly Buddhist Thailand.
Police Maj. Gen. Kamol Bhothiyop, said there were no casualties reported from the bombs, each of which was estimated to weigh about half a kg. He had no information on how the devices were detonated.
One of the bombs exploded next to the Customs Office in Sungai Kolok, a trading town on the border with Malaysia, damaging two vehicles, he said.
A second bomb exploded in front of the Su Khirin district office. Initial reports said there was no damage in that blast.
The third bomb was placed under a pickup truck that was parked in front of the building housing the local Chinese ethnic association in Ra Ngae district, Kamol said. The last one exploded behind the Ja Nae district office.
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