I was training in Hat Yai with two other foreigners in 2005 and I left the school in march. Muslim extremists bombed the airport and two big malls in the city in april. My two foreign friends were still training and had to leave to come back some weeks later.
These attacks occur mostly in the southern regions of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, but sometimes major cities are targeted as well.
I think some muslim people claim part of the territory of southern Thailand because it used to be a caliphal state of Malaysia.
Maybe sportmuaythai can enlighten us more on this since he is thai.
I haven't heard about this last attack, too bad it's happening again.
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