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3 stores bombed in Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A series of bomb blasts ripped through three department stores Saturday night in Thailand's restive south, killing four and wounding dozens more, a local television station said.
The attacks came just hours after the military staged a peace rally in the south, the site of a Muslim insurgency, where it expressed hope that people would work with authorities to end the violence.
The bombs planted on motorbikes were trigged simultaneously around 8:20 p.m. local time in the Hat Yai business district in Thailand's south, iTV television network reported. At least four were killed and 30 wounded, the private iTV television network reported, it said.
Television footage showed the Odean, Lee Garden and Big C stores in flames and the streets crowded with rescue vehicles and anxious onlookers. Hat Yai is the biggest commercial district in the south and scores of tourist from Malaysia and Singapore often do their shopping there.
Authorities quickly blames separatist insurgents for the attack. Since 2004, they have waged a bloody campaign that has left at least 1,700 dead. Most of those have been civilians.
"We do believe that the insurgents are responsible for the bombs attacked," Lt.Gen. Palangoon Klaharn, the military spokesman, said. "Their intention is to spread fear in the region."
Most of the violence has taken place in the southern provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which are the only ones with a Muslim majority and where citizens there have long complained of discrimination at the hands of the country's Buddhist majority.

[cnn.com]