Car bombs rock Narathiwat
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A car bomb rocked Narathiwat's Muang district on Friday, setting fire to more than 20 houses and injuring more than 10 people.
A car bomb attack rocked the business zone of Narathiwat’s Muang district on Friday, setting fire to more than 20 houses and injuring a total of 13 people.
Attackers also planted bombs at two other locations but the bomb squad was able to defuse one and destroy another.
Police and soldiers were alerted at about 1pm to the explosion in front of Toto Karaoke on Na Nakorn road. The blast caused a big fire that engulfed some 20 houses nearby. The initial investigation showed that about 50 kilograms of explosives were hidden a pickup and detonated by a digital watch.
Police were alerted to a suspicious motorcycle abandoned on a road near a shrine about 300 metres from the first attack. Bomb squad found explosives hidden in the vehicle and used a highpressure water hose to destroy them. Security officials believed that the attackers planned to set off the bombs when the police arrived at the scene.
A grenade was later thrown into a restaurant but failed to explode. The bomb squad collected and destroyed it.
