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The blasts took place just minutes apart from the Ruam Mitr intersection in the main business center of Yala municipality around noon on Saturday.
Colonel Pramote Promin, a spokesman for the southern army region, told media that seven people are confirmed dead, more than 70 others were wounded, some of whom were in critical condition.
The colonel said there were three bombs that exploded. The first is a car bomb and the second and third bombs were hidden in motorcycles.
The first bomb was hidden in a motorcycle parked outside a karaoke shop. Insurgents detonated the second and third bombs, which had been hidden in cars, when the authorities rushed to check the first explosion.
Several shophouses near the blast sites were on fire and many parked cars and motorcycles were damaged by the powerful explosions.
The injured were sent to the Yala hospital.
Meanwhile, a policeman was wounded in a separate motorcycle bomb attack in Mae Lan district of neighboring Pattani province on Saturday afternoon, local media reported.
Authorities were investigating and blamed separatist militants for the attacks.
Since the resurgence of insurgency in 2004, around 11,000 violent incidents instigated by secessionists in the Muslim- dominant southernmost provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat happened, with almost 5,000 people killed and nearly 8,000 injured.
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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/286901/14-die-in-southern-carnage
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