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THAILAND: Motorcycle bomb kills policeman in Thailand's southern Yala province

A policeman's been killed and seventeen people wounded after two early morning bombings in Thailand's rebellious far south. The blasts happened outside Yala town's busy railway station on Tuesday (July 17). Police and bomb squad members raced to the site of the first bomb, which was hidden in the front basket of a motorcycle parked outside the station. But while they were investigating, a second bomb which was hidden in the body of the motorcycle, exploded, causing mass injuries. Using a "decoy" to lure policemen or soldiers and then timing a second blast to injure as many as possible has been increasingly used by insurgents in Thailand's Muslim-majority southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which were annexed by overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand a century ago. Daily killings and bombings by secretive militants who never claim responsibility have increased steadily since January 2004 despite the presence of 30,000 troops and police in the three southernmost provinces. Over 2,300 people have been killed.

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