| By Manager Online | 25 August 2007 16:58 |
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August 25, 2007
BANGKOK (AFP) - A Buddhist woman was killed and 12 others wounded, including six soldiers, when a roadside bomb exploded Saturday in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said.
The seven-kilogram (15-pound) bomb went off in front of a grocery shop in Pattani, one of three insurgency-torn provinces bordering Malaysia, they said, adding the roadside bomb was detonated by remote control.
The bomb was aimed at patrolling soldiers who were providing security for Buddhist monks on their morning alms round, police said. Three monks were also wounded.
More than 2,500 people have been killed in the southern unrest since January 2004, with violence escalating despite a number of peace initiatives by the military-installed government.
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