Bombs blasts in southern Thailand

TWO bombs exploded yesterday near a tea shop and wounded 20 people in southern Thailand, police said, as violence continued unabated in the Muslim-majority region where residents are seething over the deaths of 78 detainees in military custody.

Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s government has come under severe criticism for its handling of the growing violence, with some fearing a full-blown Islamic insurgency is in the making.