Bomb attacks hit southern Thailand; two killed in police raid

Hospital staff remove from an ambulance the body of a suspected separatist who died during a police operation in Narathiwat province, on Jan 29, 2022. - AFP

BANGKOK, Jan 29 (Reuters): Bombers set off at least 13 blasts in a town in southern Thailand overnight, and police killed two suspected insurgents in a separate raid after a 20-hour siege in a nearby province, authorities said on Saturday (Jan 28).

While officials did not link the two incidents directly, the violence came weeks after the government reopened a dialogue with insurgents from a Malay-Muslim minority in the southern part of the Buddhist-majority country.