Bomb blast hurts three

A bomb exploded at a teashop here yesterday injuring three and destroying the building.
The five-kilogram device was hidden in an icebox at the shop in Muang district near a fresh market. Shop owner Chamlong Chaiboonmuang, 50, was at the market buying vegetables when the bomb exploded. The injured customers were hospitalised.Bombings, shootings, arsons and other attacks in the Muslim-majority South have claimed as many as 1,700 lives since January 2004.
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