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Bombs hit Thailand's troubled south, 51 injured

Two bombs go off outside busy supermarket as ethnic Malay insurgents battle for more autonomy

Published Tue, May 9, 2017 · 09:50 PM
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Pattani, Thailand

MORE than 50 people including children were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police said, the largest attack for months on a civilian target there.

The Muslim-majority border region has seethed with violence for over a decade as ethnic Malay insurgents battle the Buddhist-majority state for more autonomy.

The latest attack hit the town o…

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