BANGKOK -- At least five soldiers were killed and 14 wounded in a bomb attack in Thailand's restive south on Wednesday, police said.
According to the police, an explosive device buried in a local road in Kapoh district of Pattani Province was detonated by a mobile phone just as a military truck carrying 19 soldiers drove over it.
Four of the soldiers were killed at the scene while another succumbed to his injuries at hospital, the police said.
Among the 14 injured, two of them are in critical condition, according to the police.
Nearly 6,000 people have been killed in the predominantly Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since a separatist insurgency broke out in 2004.
According to the police, an explosive device buried in a local road in Kapoh district of Pattani Province was detonated by a mobile phone just as a military truck carrying 19 soldiers drove over it.
Four of the soldiers were killed at the scene while another succumbed to his injuries at hospital, the police said.
Among the 14 injured, two of them are in critical condition, according to the police.
Nearly 6,000 people have been killed in the predominantly Muslim provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since a separatist insurgency broke out in 2004.
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