தாய்லாந்தில் இன்னொரு முஸ்லீம் பயங்கரவாத குண்டுவெடிப்பு 4 பேர் பலி 25 பேர் காயம்

தெற்கு தாய்லாந்து பிரதேசமான சோங்க்லா-வில் பரபரப்பான சந்தையில் குண்டு வெடித்ததில் 4 பேர் பலி. 25 பேர் படுகாயமடைந்தனர்.

இது நடப்பதற்கு முன் தினம் ஹாட் யாய் இடத்தில் 6 தொடர் குண்டுகள் வெடித்தன.

நேற்று சபயோய் மானிலத்தில் வெடித்த குண்டுகளால் ஏற்பட்ட பலிகளில் 2 பெண்களும் 2 சிறுவர்களும் அடங்குவர்.

இப்படிப்பட்ட முஸ்லீம் தீவிரவாதத்தினால் 2000க்கும் மேற்பட்டவர் பலியாகியிருப்பதாக செய்தி கூறுகிறது.


நன்றி மலேசிய பத்திரிக்கை ஸ்டார்.

Four killed, 25 hurt in Songkhla market blast

SABAYOI (Thailand): A bomb exploded in front of a busy market in the southern Thai province of Songkhla yesterday, killing four people – including two children – and wounding 25 others, officials said.

The bombing came a day after at least 13 people were hurt when six bombs exploded on Sunday evening in Haadyai, southern Thailand's tourist and commercial hub in the same province.

Those killed yesterday in Sabayoi district were two women and two girls, aged four and eight.

The bomb, which exploded shortly after 4pm, was hidden in a motorcycle parked in front of the market next to a railway station. The motorcycle was destroyed by the blast, and a nearby car damaged, as were dozens of stalls belonging to fruit and vegetable vendors.

Provincial Governor Sonthi Thechanon confirmed the initial casualty toll and said officials had been nervous in the wake of the explosion, fearing a second bomb may have been planted there, a common tactic of terrorists seeking to assault security personnel.

Meanwhile, SIRA HABIBU reports that the Thai consul in Langkawi Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah has confirmed that no Malaysian was injured in the bomb attack in Sabayoi.

An insurgent belonging to a militant group operating in southern Thailand said the group claimed responsibility for the attack.

“It is a tit-for-tat attack because the authorities do not appear to be giving priority to cases where local Muslims are killed,” the insurgent said.

Three days ago, a mother and her four children were killed in Yaha, in Yala province.

“The charred remains of the mother and children were found but even the media did not report the case,” the insurgent said.

In Narathiwat, three Muslim men were shot dead by suspected separatist rebels.

A 24-year-old man and a 39-year-old village chief were shot and killed on Sunday as they were returning home on their motorcycles, police said.

Yesterday, in the same province, suspected militants shot dead a 40-year-old traffic policeman while he was on duty.

Since early 2004, more than 2,200 people have been killed as a result of a Muslim insurgency that has swept over much of the southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, the only ones with Muslim majorities in Buddhist-dominated Thailand.

The violence has occasionally spilled over to neighbouring Songkhla and Sabayoi district – which borders Pattani.

A senior police official said domestic politics rather than Muslim insurgents may have been behind Sunday evening's bombs in Haadyai which exploded near two hotels, two pharmacies, a department store and a restaurant.

Scores of Malaysians, Singaporeans and Indonesians spend their weekends in Haadyai, but police said all the injured were Thai nationals. Two of the wounded were reported in serious condition.

Last September, six homemade bombs exploded in Haadyai, killing four people, including the first Westerner to die in the separatist insurgency, although he was apparently not targeted. – AP