Bomb in Yala this morning

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Yala - Southern militants detonated a bomb planted on a stolen motorcycle parked near Yala's popular morning market on Tuesday morning, injuring 37 civilians, six critically.

The explosion occurred at 6:40 am when the market was crowded with food vendors and early-morning shoppers, said Yala Police Colonel Poomphet Phiphatphetpoom.

Will it ever end? :-(

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Didn't they also have one the day before that killed about 18 soldiers??

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Yep, on Monday. 8 soldiers killed :-(

YALA, Thailand, Jan 14 - Eight soldiers were killed and six wounded in ambushes by suspected separatist militants in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Monday, army and police spokesmen said.

"The soldiers were ambushed after escorting teachers to schools and eight of them were killed," army Colonel Acra Tiproch said.

The ambush occurred near a village in Narathiwat province. A military Humvee was blown up by a 20-kg (44-lb) roadside bomb, then at least 20 militants attacked, police said.

"The head of one of the dead soldiers was found next to the upside-down Humvee and the faces and bodies of others were hit with so much shrapnel and bullets that they can't be recognised," a local journalist who visited the scene said.

The militants walked away with eight M-16 rifles and an M-60 machinegun, an army statement said.

Bomb squads defused a second roadside bomb meant to hit officials rushing to the scene, police said.

Another group of soldiers escorting teachers, themselves frequent targets in four years of separatist insurgency as a symbol of the largely Buddhist state, also clashed with militants and two were wounded, he said.