Two men killed in bomb attack might be bombers : Narathiwat governor

"Among the six people killed in the attack were two teenage men, and police have found nothing to identify them with. Their bodies were also found very close to the bomb. We are investigating whether they were involved in the attack," Governor Panu Uthairat said Wednesday.

The bomb planted inside a motorbike went off in the evening near the crowded restaurant in Muang district. Two people died on the spot and four at a hospital, while 25 were wounded, three seriously.

Two of the deceased were workers at the restaurant and the rest were bystanders and customers, police said.

Pattani police chief Maj Gen Kririn Inkaew said the attack was believed to be in response to recent arrests of five core leaders of the insurgency.

The militants also wanted to show they still had power amid the closer cooperation between authorities and the public, which interfered with their ongoing separatist violence, he said.