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The attacks took place at about 7pm at four locations including Cola Hotel on Khotchaseni Road, Seven Inn apartment on Phuttha Phoom Road, Grand Palace Hotel on Chareon Chai Road and Thep Viman Hotel on Sri Bamrung Road.
At the first spot, suspected militants parked a motorcycle equipped with an improvised explosive device (IED) in the hotel’s underground motorcycle parking area where visitors and employees park their machines and detonated it remotely with a mobile phone. The bomb injured one person, said Pol Maj Gen Peera Boonliang, the Yala police chief.
Assailants riding a motorcycle threw a grenade at a common area in front of the Seven Inn apartment, but no one was injured.
A bomb later exploded at a public phone booth outside Grand Palace Hotel, injuring another person.
A black bag containing a bomb was left by the road outside Thep Viman Hotel but no one was hurt when the device went off, Pol Maj Gen Peera said.
The attacks took place not long after Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra visited Yala Hospital to give moral support to security officers injured while performing their duty.
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Beheadings resume in South
Southern militants have resumed their campaign of beheading assassination victims, police said Sunday.
Authorities said they found the headless body of a rubber tapper in Yala's Than To district.
It was the first beheading reported in the deep South since last Aug 12, when extremists killed a Yala grocery shop owner, placed his head on the roadside and set fire to his torso.
A Bangkok Post account shows militants have beheaded 53 victims since the upsurge in the war in January, 2004.
Most of the victims have been Muslim civilians, apparent targets of retaliation and intimidation because of cooperation with government security forces.
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