Briefcase 1 Twin blasts rock southern Thailand town of Pattani; one dead, 30 injured. 2 Blasts come less than 2 weeks after triple blasts at popular tourist resorts. 3 None have claimed responsibility, although southern insurgent groups suspected. SOUTHERN INSURGENT GROUPS SUSPECTEDNo group has claimed responsibility for the wave of bombings, but some security experts noted at the time that southern insurgent groups have a track record of carrying out coordinated bombing attacks. Since 2004, a low-intensity but brutal war between government troops and insurgents has killed more than 6,500 people in the southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat that border Malaysia.

Source: India Today August 24, 2016 01:18 UTC