Bangkok Post – Car bomb outside police flat kills 1, injures 16 in Yala [Video]

YALA: At least one person was killed and 16 others injured when a bomb exploded in front of a police flat in Bannang Sata district of this southern border province on Sunday morning.

The explosion happened in front of a flat belonging to Bannang Sata police station at about 10.30am. The scene is in Bannang Sata municipality and is not far from the Bannang Sata district office and a market.

The blast’s impact damaged glass panes and ceilings tiles in the flat and nearby houses. Authorities cordoned off the blast site for fear that there could be further bomb attacks.

Pol Lt Gen Piyawat Chalermsri, commissioner of Provincial Police Region 9, said the bomb was a gas cylinder planted in a blue Toyota vehicle stolen from a government agency on Saturday. It was registered in Betong district of Yala, and caught fire after the explosion. Adjacent vehicles were damaged.

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