Four soldiers killed defusing bomb at army base in southern Thailand

NARATHIWAT, Thailand Four soldiers were killed and another four seriously injured while attempting to defuse a bomb at an army base in Thailand's unrest-plagued south on Monday, police said.

The blast happened after troops moved the device, which was hidden in a gas tank and placed under a bridge, to a base in Narathiwat, one of several provinces in southern Thailand where a bloody nine-year insurgency has claimed thousands of lives.

Bomb kills two soldiers, wounds six in south Thailand

PATTANI, Thailand: Police say two soldiers were killed and six were wounded in a roadside bombing in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south.

Police Col. Manit Yimsai said on Thursday that suspected insurgents detonated an improvised bomb hidden on the road surface in Pattani province’s Panarae district.

The soldiers were in two armored vehicles traveling Wednesday night to inspect damages from an earlier militant attack.