Bomb planted in road kills six soldiers in Thailand

A bomb planted in a dirt road has killed six soldiers in southern Thailand, police said, in what was apparently an attack by Muslim separatists in an insurgency that has cost more than 6,500 lives since 2004.

The explosion in Pattani province also wounded four other soldiers and blew the truck they were travelling in into pieces, with parts of it landing 100 metres away, police major Pompetch Chotiklang said.