'Rampaging Thai Muslims target transmitters'

Security forces in Thailand are today investigating whether Muslim insurgents targeted mobile-phone transmitters in Thailand’s turbulent south in response to government efforts to block them from using mobile phones to detonate bombs.

In a rampage of violence, suspected Muslim militants yesterday burned more than 40 mobile-phone transmissions stations and antennae in four provinces of southern Thailand, an area bordering Malaysia that is wracked by a Muslim insurgency.