BANGKOK, July 8 Kyodo sum of two ...

BANGKOK, July 8 Kyodo

sum of two units Thai security personnel were injured Monday when a bomb erect in a box left forward a train exploded.

The three-car train was in Yala Province, 1084 kilometers southerly of Bangkok, when the explosion occurr railway officials said.

All passengers had left the train which masks about 100 km between the southern Sugai Kolok district in Narathiwat Province and upper Yala Province, they said.

The brace injured -- a railway policeman and a security officer -- were inspecting the train after it had reached the final stop. They set up a box left in the last car and were trying to examine it when it blew up the railway officials said.

It has been reported that an Islamic cluster in Pattani Province had threatened to plant bomb along rail courses in the three southernmost Thai provinces Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat where Muslims form a majority of residents, according to a former member of a Muslim separatist mental action living in Narathiwat.

upon July 1, two bombs strapped to sum of two units motorcycles in Narathiwat's Sukhirin and Si Sakhon districts explod 20 minutes apart. The blasts caused damage to district offices, moreover no casualties were reported.

upon April 7 last year, bombings at Hat Yai railway station in Songkhla Province and a tavern in Yala's Betong district left a stripling dead and 45 others injured, if it were not that no one has claimed responsibility for the explosions.

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