PATTANI: Two petrol stations were damaged by bombs in two districts of this southern border province on Tuesday night, and one employee was injured.
Police said a bomb was detonated at 8.05pm at a PTT station on Highway 42 in Moo 7 village in tambon Bana of Muang district. A petrol station attendant was injured and sent to hospital. The station is located near Pattani Bus Terminal.
Eyewitnesses at the PTT station said two men arrived on a motorcycle and planted a bomb there. One of them then fired a gun into the air and yelled at the attendants to flee before detonating the bomb.
The other bomb went off at a PT petrol station on Highway 42 in tambon Piya Mumang of Yaring district.
Police were investigating.
