A flash flood swept over a series of waterfalls in a popular southern Thailand recreation area today, killing at least 21 people and leaving more feared dead, officials said.

NEARLY 300 people, including a number of Western holidaymakers, were killed and more than 2,300 injured in southern Thai resorts after a major earthquake hit southeast Asia yesterday, causing tidal waves and flooding, a government disaster centre said.

A powerful bomb exploded at a busy morning market in Thailand’s troubled Muslim south today, killing one person and wounding at least 31 others, including schoolchildren, soldiers and police and swho were marching in a parade.