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YALA (Thailand) - Two bombs planted at a football field and a busy market injured seven soldiers and six civilians in Thailand's insurgency-hit far south on Tuesday, police said.
Explosives hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a fresh food market in Yala's provincial capital early Tuesday, injuring 10 people including four soldiers, local police said.
One soldier is in a critical condition.
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More than 3,300 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until mainly Buddhist Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension.
Despite attempts by various governments to curb the bloodshed in the Muslim-majority region, the murky nature of the insurgency has prevented much progress, with no groups claiming responsibility or making any demands. -- AFP
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