By Xinhua,
Bangkok : A huge bomb was triggered by insurgents in Thailand’s southernmost province of Pattani on Wednesday afternoon, killing at least three policemen.
Police said the explosion occurred in Pattani’s Yarang district. Before the bomb attack, insurgents set fire to a telephone booth to lure the policemen to inspect the scene where the bomb was planted.
Local news network The Nation said a total of six policemen were inspecting the scene while the bomb was triggered. Three of them were killed on the spot and the other three policemen and two passers-by were injured.
Thailand’s three southernmost provinces — Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani have been troubled with insurgency-related violence which has claimed more than 3,000 lives since it resumed in early 2004.