Bombs in Thailand Kill at Least Two Sunday, April 03, 2005 BANGKOK, Thailand - Bombs exploded Sunday at an airport, department store and hotel in a region of southern Thailand gripped by an Islamic insurgency, killing at least two people and injuring more than a dozen, officials and media reports said. The explosions in Songkhla province's Hat Yai airport killed two people and injured at least 15, provincial Gov. Somporn Chaibongyang said. Witnesses said the explosion occurred near the airport's check-in counters, and all departing flights were immediately canceled. However, an airport official later said departures were continuing. Somporn told reporters that five other people were hurt by a bomb at the Carrefour department store in Hat Yai, the biggest city in Thailand's far south. The Thai ITV television network said two people were killed at the store, which is part of a French-owned chain. A third bomb was detonated in the city of Songkhla, on the coast of the Gulf of Thailand not far from Hat Yai, but the governor had no reports of casualties. Police said that bomb was placed on a motorcycle in front of the Dream World Hotel and was detonated by remote control at about 8:30 p.m. - about the same time as the airport blast. There were no reports of casualties. Gen. Chaiyasit Shinawatra, the Thai military supreme commander, confirmed the bombings and said security officials had been put on high alert. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. Thailand's far south has been wracked by violence since January 2004, with many shootings and small bombings carried out by suspected Islamic separatists. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
