Bombs Hit Banks in Southern Thailand
Thai police say at least 21 bombs have exploded at banks in the restive southern province of Yala, killing at least one person and wounding at least 20 others. Officials suspect militants set off the bombs Thursday at or near commercial banks in Yala's provincial capital and nearby districts. Many of the explosives were detonated by mobile phones after being hidden in trash bins.
Separatists insurgents have staged a series of attacks in Yala and two other Muslim-majority provinces in southern Thailand (Narathiwat and Pattani) since January 2004. The provinces were a Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed them a century ago. More than 14-hundred people have been killed since the insurgency erupted.
泰國(guó)警方表示，在*的南方省份也拉的幾家銀行至少有21次炸彈爆炸，至少1人被炸死，20人受傷。泰國(guó)官員懷疑，激進(jìn)分子星期四在也拉省省會(huì)和一些附近地區(qū)的商業(yè)銀行里或周圍引爆了這些炸彈。很多炸彈藏在垃圾桶里，用移動(dòng)電話引爆。
自2004年1月以來(lái)，分離反叛分子在穆斯林占人口多數(shù)的泰國(guó)南方的也拉和另外兩個(gè)省份發(fā)動(dòng)了一系列襲擊。這些省份原先是一個(gè)馬來(lái)蘇丹國(guó)。信奉佛教的泰國(guó)在一個(gè)世紀(jì)之前兼并這個(gè)地區(qū)。自從反叛活動(dòng)爆發(fā)以來(lái)，已經(jīng)有1400多人喪生。
