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Rescue workers rush an injured woman to hospital following a car bomb attack at a business area in the Thai-Malaysian border district of Sungai Kolok, Narathiwat province, southern Thailand, on July 20, 2012.
Eight people were injured after a bomb exploded outside a commercial building in southern Thailand on Friday morning, The Bangkok Post reports.
Authorities said the explosives were hidden in a pick-up truck outside a computer company in Sungai Kolok, Reuters reports. Three of the company's owners were injured escaping from the top floor of the building, authorities said. Another vehicle and two motorcycles were also destroyed in the blast that spread to nearby buildings.
At least 5,000 people have been killed in southern Thailand since 2004 in violence attributed to Muslim separatists.
Surapan Boonthanom / Reuters
Security forces and firefighters work at the scene of a car bomb attack in Narathiwat province on July 20, 2012.
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Members of a Thai bomb squad unit inspect the site of a car bomb attack in Narathiwat province on July 20, 2012.
Madaree Tohlala / AFP - Getty Images
Firemen and rescue workers evacuate a woman on a stretcher after a car bomb blast in Narathiwat province on July 20, 2012.
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what the @!$%# is this world coming to when people can kill others like drinking a glass of water why
very sorry for those affected and we are praying for them
In Dearborn ,Michigan .Bulgaria,Argentina,Europe,Asia,Australia Africa ..and many other places on all 6 continents the Islam terrorists strike again If I was a penguin in Antartica, I´d be worried.This is a plague and a cancer.Even if they didn´t do this in Thailand they will be very happy that "infidels" died.Islam is a violent ideology. Do we need to have our noses rubbed into it more to prove this?.Not all Muslims are violent.of course, but Islam as an ideology is!!
You got that right Bart....... Call them 'rebels,' 'isolationists', 'radicals', 'fundamentalists,' 'jihadists', 'terrorists' or whatever you like, these are Muslims killing anyone that doesn't agree with their 'ideals' (they'll eliminate their own kind as well, if that's what it takes to kill or terrorize everyone else). The so called 'peaceful' Muslims won't stand up against them because they are totally aware that their messenger, Mohammad, tells them that this is Allah's wish and, if they disagree, their punishment is death.
They are given a choice as Muslims, pray five times a day.... or your neighbors will kill you.
If that "5000" killed since 2004 is a correct number, that only amounts to about 1.7 persons per day; not enough to cause the Thai government to go out and eliminate these groups to save the rest of their country.
5000 is a huge number.Looking at it as 1.7 a day is playing with numbers,Like saying only 3000 were killer in NewYork.but dividing it over the decadei t´s not that much.But your post is a very good one. Most of the Muslims live in ome area of the country.The Thai government is going after them with full force.but perhaps not enough.The Thais like the Phillipines have a BIG problem.I wish them both well in eliminating these demons from their midst.!!
I was just being facetious and sarcastic, not to mention somewhat smart-assed with the '1.7 per day BS
I know the Thai government is working at the problem but the muslim insurgency in the south have vowed not to compromise and just want to take the land from Thailand.
None of you commentors thus far know anything about Thailand.
-it's complicated...
The strip of landmass that is now Thailand has all the popular tourist revenue locations and large off shore oil and natural gas reserves, the Muslim population is ethnic Malay and feel disenfranchised and alienated by the predominant Buddhist Thai government. There's been potential for conflict there just as there is in most of the "occupied" regions of the world.
The peaceful religion strikes again, and again.
Send in the army ...it's a fairly thin peninsula ...push em all back into Malaysia ...I just booked a hotel in Krabi for November ...make it quick Yingluck