At least sixteen people were injured, including four critically, when three blasts rocked Thailand's restive south on Friday, police and witnesses said. All 16 were injured in the first of the blasts Friday evening when a remote control bomb was triggered in a crowded restaurant in the capital of Narathiwat province, according to a witness counting the injured at hospital.
Two other bombs went off within two hours of the first but nobody was injured, according to officials.
The bomb blasts came hours after a Buddhist teacher was shot dead and raised fears of a major surge in violence following the deaths of 87 Muslim protestors on October 25.
A police spokesman said the first bomb exploded at 6:20 pm (1120 GMT) in the Ungmor restaurant five minutes after a witness saw two men posing as clients plant it in the restaurant before riding away on a motorbike.
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