9 injured in car bombs in southern Thailand

Nine people were injured in twin car bombs in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat on Friday morning.

The first bomb attached to a motorcycle went off at around 10: 00 a.m. local time at Soi Jarusatient in Narathiwat's Su-ngai Padi district, police said.

During police's way to the crime scene, another bomb exploded at 10:29 a.m. local time near a rubber shop in the same district. The second explosion wounded nine people, including one police.

The second bomb was also attached to a motorcycle, parked by a teenager, witnesses said.

The police have arrested two suspects for interrogation.

There have been at least three attacks by suspected separatists in Thailand's restive southern provinces this week, killing at least 10 people.

Since the resurgence of insurgency in 2004 in three southernmost provinces, Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat, altogether more than 4,000 local people, including more than 200 soldiers and 200 police, have been killed and about 7,000 injured in more than 10, 000 violent incidents instigated by suspected secessionists.

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