Flera bombdåd skakar städer i södra Thailand

Yala Governor Dejrat Simsiri said the blasts occurred over 10 minutes at around midday (06:00 BST) in the commercial district of Yala city.

He said two of the bombs were hidden in motorcycles and the third in a car.

Thailand's three southern-most provinces have been plagued by bomb attacks and shootings since 2004, when a separatist campaign reignited.

"We are not sure which group of suspected Muslim insurgents were behind this but we are looking," Mr Dejrat said.

Sahudin Tohjehmae 'orchestrated Yala, Hat Yai explosions with 3 others'

Many suspects have been identified in relation to car-bomb attacks at three locations in the deep South on Saturday, while another man was arrested yesterday for his alleged role in blasts in Pattani.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb wounded a kamnan and three other officials as they were travelling in his pick-up truck in Pattani's Yarang district yesterday.
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Ismael Buenae, chief of tambon Kor Lam, sustained only minor injuries, as did three civil defence volunteers sitting in the bed of the truck, despite the vehicle being blown 30 metres from the bombsite. Police said the bomb consisted of 15kg of explosives buried in the middle of the road, with a wire detonator.

Security sources alleged yesterday that Sahudin Tohjehmae carried out three bomb attacks in Yala, with the help of Saifulloh Sahfru, a terrorist suspect who is a friend of Faisol Hayisama-ae. Faisol is wanted for the Hat Yai airport bomb attack in 2005.

Sahudin was also supported by Abdulloh Pula, and Masoreh Tueramae. "They possibly met to plan the attacks [over the weekend] at Byte village, in tambon Budee, and Muang district one week before that," the source said.

Masoreh may have assembled the car bomb used in the attack at the Lee Gardens Hotel in Hat Yai, and possibly drove the vehicle and parked it at an underground carpark himself, the sources said.

In Pattani, security officials raided a home in tambon Muang Tia in Mae Lan district and arrested Samlee Puluduereh, 34, following tip-offs. A pair of iron-cutting pliers and 100 metres of electric wire were found in his home.

Hat Yai 'was car bomb'

A car bomb is believed to have caused the fire that killed five people at a Hat Yai hotel and sent more than 300 to hospital on Saturday.

It was fairly clear that the blast was caused by a car bomb, according to evidence found at the scene

Seven people were killed and 22 injured by a series of bombs across Thailand's southernmost provinces, an official said Wednesday.

Thirty-one bombs went off in the provinces of Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla and several arson attacks were carried out late Tuesday and early Wednesday, said Lieutenant General Paradorn Pattanathabutra, secretary-general of the National Security Council.