Prime Minister Gen Prayut Chan-o-cha nevertheless ordered Thai security agencies to continue investigating the alleged link. "Thailand has not found any intelligence information indicating that the bombing in southern Thailand was related to the recent terror attacks in Jakarta and Mindanao," he said in a statement issued after the weekly cabinet meeting, here, Tuesday. Prayut said the government would inform the public if it had sufficient evidence to link the blast in Pattani recently with other terror attacks in the region. On the progress of "Safety Zones" in southern Thailand, the prime minister said both sides were still talking on the details of the matter. The Thai government has been in peace talks with Mara Patani, an umbrella group representing several militant groups in southern Thailand, with the facilitation of Malaysia.

Source: The Star May 30, 2017 12:33 UTC