Thai police and bomb squad units inspect damage on a vehicle at the site bomb blast in front of a hotel in Yala province on Saturday. -- PHOTO: AFP
YALA (Thailand) - SEPARATIST insurgents shot dead a railway security guard and two bombs killed one woman and injured 11 people in Thailand's restive south, local police said on Sunday.
A 49-year-old railway security guard was shot dead in troubled Yala province in a drive-by shooting as he left his house late Saturday morning, they said.
Later the same day a small bomb hidden inside a motorcycle and triggered by a mobile phone, detonated in front of a convenience store in nearby Pattani province and injured eight people including two children and two policemen.
One of the injured, a woman, later died in hospital.
Meanwhile, another small bomb, hidden inside a pick-up truck, was set off in front of a Yala hotel, injuring four slightly.
More than 3,500 people have been killed since separatist unrest erupted almost five years ago in Thailand's Muslim-majority south.
Tensions have simmered since Thailand annexed the mainly Malay sultanate in 1902. -- AFP
