Blast injures 5 cops in Thai south

YALA: Five police officers were injured Monday 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 injured, while all of them have been hospitalised, local authorities said.