A military personnel inspects the site of a bomb attack in Nong Chik district in the troubled southern province of Pattani, Thailand, November 3, 2016. REUTERS/Surapan Boonthanom
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Insurgents in mostly-Muslim areas of southern Thailand killed three people in a spate of bomb and gun attacks overnight targeting military personnel and commercial property, the military said on Thursday.
The insurgent attacks were the first since the death of King Bhumibol Adulyadej last month, and defied a request by the military junta to desist while the nation mourns a much-loved monarch who had reigned for seven decades.
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