Bangkok, April 24, SPA -- Suspected Muslim separatists detonated a bomb in southern Thailand on Sunday, killingtwo police officers and wounding three other people. The device, believed to have been triggered by a mobilephone, exploded in a small storehouse used by a villagechief in the Sungai Kolok district of Narathiwat provinceand caused damage in a 30-meter (98-foot) radius, saidpolice Lt. Sittidej Ruansong. Two police officers were killed, while another officer andtwo villagers were wounded in the blast near a borderpolice station and a market along the Malaysian frontier,he said. The attack came after Thailand's revered Queen Sirikitdelivered a televised address late Saturday calling on thepublic to unite against the ongoing violence in thesouthernmost provinces. "We have to condemn such actions as being totally devoidof humanity," the queen was quoted as saying by theBangkok Post. --SPA1307 Local Time 1007 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/257495
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