At least 20 people were injured when two bombs exploded in front of a government office today in southern Thailand, security officials said.
The explosions struck outside a local government meeting on the coronavirus outbreak after a week in which cases in the country trebled to 177.
A number of officials are reported to have gone outside to investigate following the first explosion and before the second.
Colonel Pramote Prom-in, a military regional security spokesman, said: “The first bomb was a grenade thrown to the area outside the SBPAC office fence to draw people out. “Then a car bomb about ten meters from the first explosion went off. “This was hidden in a pick-up truck where the perpetrators parked near the fence.”
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Source: The Sun