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Bomb kills 2 Buddhist monks in Thai Muslim south

By REUTERS

MAY 16, 2011 09:26

YALA, Thailand - A powerful roadside bomb killed two Buddhist monks and wounded two soldiers in Thailand's Muslim deep south on Monday, police said, the latest attack in a region hit by seven years of separatist violence.

The bomb was hidden in a ditch in Yala province bordering Malaysia and was triggered as a pickup truck carrying the monks from a temple drove past.

The blast sent the vehicle rolling 10 meters and also wounded two soldiers assigned to protect the monks from attacks by Muslim militants. Police said the bomb was made from explosives packed into a cooking gas cylinder and weighed about 20 kg.

The intensity of violence in rubber-rich Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani has increased this year. Attacks include powerful bombings, an assassination attempt on a provincial governor and a deadly weapons raid on a poorly guarded army barracks.

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