Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun (R) returns the constitution after signing it to Thailand's Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha at Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall in Bangkok, Thailand April 6, 2017. Thailand Royal Household Bureau/Handout via REUTERS
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Bomb blasts were among 23 coordinated attacks that rocked Muslim-majority southern Thailand early on Friday, a security officer said, just hours after King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a new constitution as a step towards ending military rule.
Police reported no casualties in the region, site of a recent upsurge in a decades-old Muslim separatist insurgency that had voted the most strongly against the new constitution at a referendum last year.
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