BANGKOK, March 23 Kyodo A bomb bl...

BANGKOK, March 23 Kyodo

A bomb blast forward Tuesday near a provincial administrative center in Thailand's southern Narathiwat Province left united woman injured and damaged the building, police said.

The distantly controlled bomb was exploded around 11:20 a.m. in a restroom at a local office of the Telephone Organization of Thailand (TOT), which is near the provincial building where Interior Minister Bokhin Bhalakula was meeting to map gone out strategies to curb the growing unrest in the south

The police also defused a bomb set in a bank car park about 100 meter from the TOT office.

restraint spokesman Jakkrapob Penkair said the incident is being treated as act to challenge the government's authority.

Violence in southern Thailand has been escalating since a Jan. 4 attack in Narathiwat where assailants raided an army weapon depository stole more than 300 fire-arms killed four soldiers and calcineed 20 schools.

The Thai command declared martial law a day later in the three southernmost Muslim-majority provinces Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, however violence has continued and to such a degree far more than 50 persons mostly policemen, soldiers and dominion officials have been killed in almost-daily attacks.

a certain quantity of suspects arrested in connection with the escalating violence have accused couple members of parliament from Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra's Thai Rak Thai Party and a senator of masterminding the Jan. 4 attack.

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