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At least eight blasts were heard in Yala, causing chaos and "a lot of injured people" although the number of casualties was not immediately clear, according to the town's governor Krisada Boonrach.
"Several bombs went off, I can still hear explosions," a Yala policeman told AFP by telephone from the southern region, which has been plagued by more than eight years of conflict.
They are the latest in a series of increasingly brazen attacks by the shadowy rebels. On Sunday at least seven people were killed in back-to-back shooting and bomb attacks in a town in neighbouring Narathiwat province.