One dead and 29 more injured as car bomb explosion rocks hotel in Thai tourist hotspot
Bomb hit Southern Hotel in Pattani
AT LEAST one person has been killed and another 29 injured after a car bomb went off outside a hotel in Thailand.
The bomb is understood to have struck near the Southern Hotel in Pattani.
At least one of the building's walls looks to have been demolished by the blast, which has left the rest of the hotel ablaze.
The blast happened in the city's popular tourist district.
The injuries of those involved are not yet known.
It comes after British holidaymakers have been warned to be on "high alert" over fears of more bombs rocking holiday spots across Thailand.
The warning was issued by the Foreign Office after a spate of 11 terror blasts rocked Thailand earlier this month killing four and injuring dozens, including tourists.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks on August 11 and 12.
An FCO statement said: "Bomb and grenade attacks have been indiscriminate, including in places visited by expatriates and foreign travellers.
"There have been attacks in the past in the main cities of Thailand, including in Bangkok in 2015 and 2012, in Koh Samui in 2015, and in Chiang Mai in 2010."
Earlier today the trial of two Chinese nationals accused of killing 20 people when they allegedly bombed a Bangkok shrine last year was postponed because the men still do not have a translator.
The delay is the latest snag in a cryptic case that has so far shed little light on the horrific attack in Thailand's capital last year that also left 100 people wounded.
More than a dozen ethnic Chinese were among the dead when explosives - apparently left in a backpack - detonated in a Hindu shrine popular with tourists, in August 2015.
Yusufu Mieraili and Bilal Mohammed have denied all charges, and have accused their jailers of beating them and denying them halal food in the military prison where they have been held for the past year.
Authorities deny the two men have been mistreated.
Their case was further complicated when their translator, an Uzbek national, fled after he was hit with drug possession charges in June.
The judge agreed to table the proceedings until the next hearing date on 15 September, according to an AFP reporter inside the courtroom.
Prosecutors accuse Mohammed of placing the bomb inside a backpack at the shrine and say Mieraili was involved in transporting the device.
They say the bombing was carried out by a people-smuggling gang angered by a police crackdown.
More follows.
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