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1st LD Writethru: Bombings kill 1, injure 13 in restive Thai provinces

Xinhua, July 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

One person was killed and at least 13 others were injured in four bombing incidents that rocked two southern provinces of Thailand on Friday night.

A homemade bomb, which was believed to be hidden in a parked motorcycle, went off near a police booth at Padang Besar subdistrict of Songkhla province's Sadao district at about at 8:50 p.m. local time, police said.

The explosion left one woman dead and five others wounded.

Earlier in the day, three bombing attacks took place in Sungai Kolok district of Narathiwat province, injuring at least eight people, according to Bangkok Post.

The first two happened at about 6: 50 p.m. local time, with homemade bombs thrown at two restaurants, while the third explosion occurred later at a karaoke shop.

Perpetrators of the bombings are yet to be located.

Thailand's three Muslim, ethnic-Malay dominated southern border provinces - Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat, along with some parts of Songkhla province, have been plagued with separatist violence since January 2004.

On Thursday night, a Muslim policeman was reportedly killed in a drive-by shooting in Sri Sakhon district of Narathiwat, and police held separatists responsible. Endi