Yala: At least 14 people were killed and more than 400 were injured in a series of car bombs south of Thailand, officials said Sunday.
According to report suspected militants Saturday attacked a hotel in Hat Yai, the largest city in southern Thailand and a popular destination for tourists from neighbouring Malaysia and Singapore.
A car bomb in the basement triggered a fire which spread to a shopping mall within the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel and killed three people, including a Malaysian tourist, according to the police, AFP reported.
Songkhla provincial governor Grisada Boorach said 416 people were injured, mostly suffering from smoke inhalation, and 140 were still in hospital Sunday.
The hotel bombing came about an hour after two car bombs minutes apart hit the town of Yala around midday as people were out shopping.
“Right now we know in Yala there are 11 people dead,” the report quoted a PR officer at the health ministry as saying.
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