Eight Injured In Narathiwat Bomb Attack

BANGKOK, April 24 (TNA) - Four soldiers and four villagers including a three-year-old child were injured in a bomb attack in Thailand’s southern Narathiwat province Tuesday. The bomb attack took place on Tak Bai-Taba road in front of a cemetery in Ban Taba village of Tak Bai district. Police said an improvised explosive device possibly weighing seven kilograms was detonated with a communication radio when a patrol from Narathiwat Task Force 36 was passing by on their vehicle. The explosion wounded four soldiers and four villagers, including the three-year-old child, who were also passing by on their two motorcycles. The child sustained a severe shrapnel injury. Witnesses told police that prior to the explosion, two people arrived on a motorcycle at the scene of the bomb attack and placed a black bag believed to contain the explosive device on a cart in front of the cemetery. (TNA)