One killed, 30 wounded by explosions in southern Thailand

Pictures show the burnt-out remains of a building with a fire still raging inside.

The blast comes almost two weeks after twin bombs ripped through a tourist bar area in the Thai resort town of Hua Hin, killing one woman and injuring as many as 20 other people.

The injuries of the victims are not yet known and authorities can not rule out the possibility that tourists may be among the casualties.

The United Kingdom’s Mirror newspaper reported that it was still uncertain whether any tourists were injured in the blast.

The FCO have the following advice for British tourists: ‘There were multiple explosions and incidents in tourist areas across Thailand on 11, 12 and 14 August.

Police said the first blast, in a parking lot behind the Southern Hotel, caused no casualties. “We know where they came from, where they went”.

“So far there is one killed and more than 30 injured”, Major General Thanongsak Wangsupa, Pattani provincial police commander, told AFP.

The attack comes in the wake of a wave of explosions set off by homemade devices that rocked locations across the South-East Asian country earlier this month, killing four people. Pattani is one of three Muslim-majority provinces in largely Buddhist Thailand, near the Malaysian border.