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    March 31, 2012

8 Killed in Thailand Blasts

   VOA News
   Thai fire fighters walk near a wreckage of a car while others trying to
   put off fire at a building after the car bomb blasted in Yala, southern
   Thailand, March 31, 2012. Photo: AP
   Thai fire fighters walk near a wreckage of a car while others trying to
   put off fire at a building after the car bomb blasted in Yala, southern
   Thailand, March 31, 2012.

   Officials in Thailand say eight people have died and at least 70 people
   were wounded in three bomb blasts just minutes apart in the country's
   insurgency-plagued south.
   The governor of Yala says the explosions went off Saturday around
   lunchtime in Yala city's business area.
   Authorities say the bombs, hidden in two motorcycles and a car, also
   set several nearby buildings on fire.
   Such bombings are a common tactic of Islamic separatists who have been
   waging an insurgency in the Muslim-dominated provinces of Yala,
   Narathiwat and Pattani since early 2004. The conflict has taken more
   than 5,000 lives.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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