YALA — A furniture shop, a clinic and a plant shop were the latest targets in a spate of bombings in Yala that began late on Thursday. No one was injured.
The incidents brought the number of bombings in the southern province to 33 as of 10am on Saturday.
On Saturday morning, police were reported a bomb had exploded at the Raja Furniture shop on Siroros Road in Muang district at 7am.
When they reached the scene, the wooden shophouse was engulfed in flames. Ten fire engines managed to contain the blaze after 40 minutes. Three shophouses near it were also damaged.
Police believed the perpetrators might have hidden small fuel bombs in the shop and remotely triggered them by mobile phone.
This was not the first time the shop was the target of violence. On April 6 last year, a pickup truck with bombs parked beside the shop exploded and caused a fire with damages totalling 20 million baht. One died and 23 were injured in the incident.
At about the same time, another bomb went off behind a restroom of Nongluck clinic in Yala municipality.
The 3kg bomb was put near the men's restroom. No one was in it.
At 8.30am, another bomb went off at the large Ban Ton Mai plant shop on Poomacheep Road.
So far, the targets of the bombings have been shops and Buddhist communities, police said.