Pattani woman restaurateur prevents bomb attack
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A 60-year-old woman cleared a bomb found at her restaurant in Pattani's Yaring district on Tuesday night. The bomb went off later without causing any casualties.
Pannee Rattanachinda noticed a suspicious box under a table inside her Saithong Restaurant after two men dropped by without buying anything.
After opening the box Pannee found what looked like explosives inside. She rushed it out to a pile of sand in front of her restaurant.
The bomb went off half an hour later without any casualties. A few minutes later another blast occurred nearby, but nobody was hurt.
Yaring Police Station received reports of the blasts at about 7.25pm. They found that one explosion had occurred in the pile of sand in front of the restaurant, and the other bomb had been hidden inside a garbage bin when it went off. Upon scouring the scene, police also found a third bomb that was successfully defused.
Saithong Restaurant is popular andhas attracted a number of high-ranking government officials and celebrities. Police believe the blasts were designed to spur unrest in the deep South.
