Bomb Attacks Hit Southern Thailand; 2 Killed in Police Raid

Bomb Attacks Hit Southern Thailand; 2 Killed in Police Raid
Police tape in Thailand in a file photo. Jerome Taylor/AFP via Getty Images
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BANGKOK—Bombers set off at least 13 blasts in a town in southern Thailand overnight, and police killed two suspected insurgents in a separate raid after a 20-hour siege in a nearby province, authorities said on Saturday.

While officials did not link the two incidents directly, the violence came weeks after the government reopened a dialogue with insurgents from a Malay-Muslim minority in the southern part of the country.