Bomb attack on mosque in southern Thailand injures 14

At least 14 people were injured after unidentified assailants threw a small bomb into a mosque in Thailand's southern province of Yala on Thursday morning, local police said.

Yala police said the attack occurred around 5 a.m. in the province's Yaha district as more than 100 Muslims were engaged in morning prayers in the mosque.

As many as eight government buildings, including three schools and a clinic, were reportedly set afire Wednesday night in Yaha and Bannang-sata districts, which are both under curfew.

Thailand imposed the curfew last month after the insurgents killed eight Buddhists in Yaha on March 14.

Also Wednesday, three border patrol police officers were wounded in a roadside bombing in Yala's Raman district, according to the Thai News Agency.

Meanwhile, police raided a cooperative in Sungai Padi district of neighboring Narathiwat Province on Wednesday and confiscated a cache of military-style uniforms, two-way radios, ammunition rounds and maps of government offices marked with post-attack escape routes, and five motorcycles with fake license plates, TNA reported.

The violence stems from simmering tensions between the government of predominantly Buddhist Thailand and the Muslim community in the south.

Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in the violence since a separatist insurgency broke out in January 2004. Most of victims have been police, soldiers, teachers and other government targets.