BANGKOK (Kyodo) -- Muslim separatists unleashed a series of bomb attacks in southern Thailand on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 400, authorities said Sunday.National police chief Gen. Priewphan Damapong said a deadly explosion and fire at a hotel and shopping complex in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, on Saturday was caused by a car bomb planted in an underground parking area.
The blast and fire, which occurred at around noon at the 33-story Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel building, killed five people, including a Malaysian national, and injured more than 300 others, local police officials said.
An hour earlier, three explosions in rapid succession occurred in a busy downtown area of Yala city, Yala Province, killing 11 people and injuring 127 others, the Public Health Ministry said. Read More
