Thailand: Blast injures five Policemen

Five police officers were injured when a bomb targeting their patrol exploded in Thailand's far south, where a bloody separatist insurgency is raging, police said.The blast was on a road leading to a village in Yala, one of the three Muslim-majority provinces beset by violence.Three of the Policemen were seriously ... ...while all of them have been hospitalised, local authorities said.More than 3,300 people have been killed since separatist unrest broke out in January 2004 in the south, which was an autonomous Malay sultanate until Thailand annexed it in 1902, provoking decades of tension.Authorities have made little progress in identifying the militants, who rarely claim responsibility for their attacks.Hopes for a resolution to the conflict were briefly raised on Thursday when a group claiming to be behind the violence announced a ceasefire.But the declaration was greeted with widespread doubts by the military and veteran insurgent leaders.

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