Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Bomb hits truck carrying Thai soldiers; 7 wounded

Cambodian soldiers are seen by a machine gun as they guard along the Cambodia-Thailand border near Preah Vihear temple, Preah Vihear province, about 245 kilometers (152 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is scheduled to pay his first official visit on Saturday to his troops at the disputed territory near the historic temple. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith) (Heng Sinith - AP)

via CAAI News Media
The Associated Press
Monday, February 8, 2010; 8:15 AM

BANGKOK -- Police say suspected insurgents detonated a bomb as two truckloads of soldiers passed, wounding seven troops in Thailand's restive south.

Police Lt. Heraman Jehdee says the attack happened Monday afternoon soon after the vehicles with 38 soldiers left a camp in Bo-ngo sub-district in Narathiwat province. He says police found a gas canister at the scene used to plant the mobile phone-triggered explosive device.

More than 4,000 people have been killed in Thailand's three southern provinces since an Islamist insurgency flared in 2004. The provinces are the only Muslim-majority areas in the predominantly Buddhist country, and Muslims have long complained of discrimination by the central government.

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