Car bomb rocks southern Thailand

Thai fire-fighters extinguish a fire at the site where a car bomb was detonated by suspected separatist militants in Thailand's restive southern province of Narathiwat. PHOTO: AFP

NARATHIWAT: A car bomb rocked the business zone of the Muang district here on Friday, setting fire to more than 20 houses and injuring 13 people, according to The Nation. 

It reported that bombs were also planted at two other locations but the bomb squad was able to defuse one and destroy another.

Thai police and soldiers were alerted at about 1pm over the explosion in front of Toto Karaoke on Na Nakorn road.