.- At least 18 people, including three soldiers, were injured today when a car bomb exploded in the heart of the city of Yala, in the Muslim region of southern Thailand, police said. The powerful explosion caused a fire in three buildings located within walking distance of the vehicle that was parked on the street and facing a bank branch of the Siam City.
A spokesman for the police station in Yala, capital of the province of the same name and located a few thousand 100 kilometers south of Bangkok, told state television that seven people were injured from a serious and were admitted to the provincial hospital. Police blamed the attack on rebels of the Islamic separatist movement, which in recent weeks has stepped up attacks against civilian and military targets.
In late January, the Thai government extended another three months a state of emergency in Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, in response to increased violence in the region with small arms attacks, murder and attacks happen bomb in southern Thailand, despite the deployment of 31 000 members of the security forces and the declaration of a state of emergency.
Nearly four thousand five hundred people have died in the region since the Islamic separatist movement resumed armed struggle in January 2004 after a decade of guerrilla activity poor. Thailand annexed in 1902 the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which formed the former sultanate of Pattani, where most of the population is Muslim and ethnic Malay.
The insurgents denounce the Buddhist cultural assimilation policy of the Thai government and require the creation of an independent Islamic state. 
A spokesman for the police station in Yala, capital of the province of the same name and located a few thousand 100 kilometers south of Bangkok, told state television that seven people were injured from a serious and were admitted to the provincial hospital. Police blamed the attack on rebels of the Islamic separatist movement, which in recent weeks has stepped up attacks against civilian and military targets.
In late January, the Thai government extended another three months a state of emergency in Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, in response to increased violence in the region with small arms attacks, murder and attacks happen bomb in southern Thailand, despite the deployment of 31 000 members of the security forces and the declaration of a state of emergency.
Nearly four thousand five hundred people have died in the region since the Islamic separatist movement resumed armed struggle in January 2004 after a decade of guerrilla activity poor. Thailand annexed in 1902 the provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, which formed the former sultanate of Pattani, where most of the population is Muslim and ethnic Malay.
The insurgents denounce the Buddhist cultural assimilation policy of the Thai government and require the creation of an independent Islamic state.
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