{"id":101584,"date":"2017-05-09T07:38:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101584"},"modified":"2017-05-09T07:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T11:38:46","slug":"car-bomb-in-thailands-muslim-dominated-south-wounds-over-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/09\/car-bomb-in-thailands-muslim-dominated-south-wounds-over-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Car bomb in Thailand&#8217;s Muslim dominated south wounds over 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_101585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101585\" style=\"width: 657px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Amphoe_9401.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101585\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Amphoe_9401.png\" alt=\"Suspected insurgents in Thailand detonated a car bomb Tuesday outside a busy shopping centre in the south of the country, wounding more than 50 people in a huge blast that ripped the building apart and sent people running for their lives.  (Photo by Ahoerstemeier (Own work) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/) or CC BY-SA 1.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/1.0)],)\" width=\"657\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Amphoe_9401.png 657w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Amphoe_9401-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 657px) 100vw, 657px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suspected insurgents in Thailand detonated a car bomb Tuesday outside a busy shopping centre in the south of the country, wounding more than 50 people in a huge blast that ripped the building apart and sent people running for their lives. (Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3AAmphoe_9401.png\">Ahoerstemeier (Own work) [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/) or <\/a>CC BY-SA 1.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/1.0)],)<\/figcaption><\/figure>PATTANI, Thailand \u2014 Suspected insurgents in Thailand detonated a car bomb Tuesday outside a busy shopping centre in the south of the country, wounding more than 50 people in a huge blast that ripped the building apart and sent people running for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers initially set off firecrackers as a distraction before triggering explosives planted in a pick-up truck at the mall&#8217;s entrance in the city of Pattani, said Pramote Prom-in, a military spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred at one of Thailand&#8217;s Big C shopping centres, a major grocery and retail chain. Footage of the scene aired on Thai television stations showed a huge black plume of smoke rising skyward from the blackened building as rescue workers doused the flames and soldiers stood by.<\/p>\n<p>Pattani Hospital posted on its board of emergency room patients that 52 people were injured from the incident.<\/p>\n<p>No deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim separatists have waged a bloody insurgency for years in Thailand&#8217;s three southernmost provinces, the only ones with Muslim majorities in the predominantly Buddhist country. More than 6,500 people have been killed since 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PATTANI, Thailand \u2014 Suspected insurgents in Thailand detonated a car bomb Tuesday outside a busy shopping centre in the south &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":101585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[3305],"class_list":["post-101584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-car-bomb","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}