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BANGKOK - A bomb was thrown into a mosque in Thailand's rebellious Muslim-majority south today, wounding at least 14 worshippers, a senior policeman said.
About 100 people had gathered for morning prayers in the mosque, located in an area under curfew since an attack by suspected insurgents on a minibus that killed eight Buddhists last month, Major-General Paitoon Chuchaiya said.
Few other details were immediately available, he told Channel 3 television, on a night of arson attacks on schools often targeted by insurgents as a symbol of the far-away government in Bangkok.
Eight schools, two teachers' houses and two clinics were set ablaze in the Yaha district of Yala province and a neighbouring area, said Paitoon, the provincial police chief.
Yaha was put under curfew last month after the minibus attack, which outraged the country's overwhelming Buddhist majority.
More than 2000 people have been killed in three years of insurgency in the Muslim far south concentrated mostly in Yala and the neighbouring provinces of Narathiwat and Pattani.
- REUTERS
