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A car bomb planted at the foot of the first Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge near the Myawaddy-Mae Sot border checkpoint exploded late on Saturday night damaging a four-storey building and shops nearby.

The car bombing reportedly targeted the motorcade of Adens Governor Ahmed Lamlas and other high-ranking Yemeni officials, who survived the attack.

Tension is mounting in Thailand’s Muslim South as security officials brace for possible retaliation by separatist militants as the trial of seven suspected insurgents linked to a car-bomb plot in Bangkok two years ago comes to a close later this month.

Suspected militants in drawn-out chase after stealing five pickups in Songkhla and kidnapping four

A SUSPECT sought in connection for a car-bomb in Pattani in July last year has been arrested, the authorities said.

Police detained a 30-year-old man at his house on Sunday in Yala’s Than To district for allegedly stealing a pickup and resisting authorities’ attempts to search him.

Police have opened an investigation after a black pickup was found abandoned on a road in Yala’s Bannang Sata district on Saturday night, amid suspicions that insurgents might have intended to use it as a vehicle bomb.

BEIRUT - At least 15 people were killed Thursday in a car bombing in Syria's coastal city of Jableh, a bastion of the regime, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.

THE car bomb used in the attack outside a co-operative shop in Pattani’s Yaring district on Thursday evening consisted of home-made explosives attached to two 15 kilogram cooking cylinders and weighed around 200 kilograms, a police source revealed yesterday.

THE DEADLY car bomb attack in the deep South province of Pattani on Saturday came just two days after former premier General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh warned that the government’s trumpeting of a reduction in violence in the region was misguided.