Bomb at Pork Stall in Market in Thailand’s South Kills Three, Wounds 22

Military personnel and police officers inspect the site of a bomb attack at a market in the southern province of Yala, Thailand, Jan. 22, 2018. Reuters/Surapan Boonthanom

BANGKOK—A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 22, a spokesman for the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) said, the first such attack in the region in months.

The mostly Muslim provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in Thailand’s far south are home to a long-running insurgency by ethnic Malay Muslims fighting for autonomy in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since 2004.