21 Wounded in 2 Bomb Blasts in Southern Thailand

June 3, 2007

Source: PR Inside

Wire Service: AP

http://www.pr-inside.com/wounded-in-2-bomb-blasts-r142613.htm

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Two bomb blasts--including one during a soccer match-- wounded 21 people in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south on Sunday, police said.

Two local teams were playing a friendly soccer game on a school field in Yala province when a bomb went off Sunday, injuring 17 players and spectators, three of them seriously, said police Col. Hanirut Himherb.

Hanirut said all the wounded were adults and believed to be Muslim, although this could not be immediately confirmed.

Muslim insurgents were suspected to be behind the attack, he said.

In a separate attack Sunday, a bomb exploded in southern Narathiwat province, wounding four of 12 soldiers who were on a foot patrol, said police Lt. Kanchit Keenor.