Twin blasts in Thailand wound 18

Security personnel inspecting the site of a car bomb after if exploded in front of the government’s Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre in Yala. — Reuters

TWO bombs exploded in front of a government office in Thailand’s insurgency-hit southern Yala province on Tuesday, wounding 18 people, a security official said.

The explosions took place in front of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC), a Thai government body that oversees the administration of three mostly Malay-Muslim majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala where an insurgency since 2004 has killed some 7,000 people.