South Thailand hit by serial blasts
Explosions blamed on suspected separatists kill one person and injure 27 others.

Hidden explosives
The first blasts hit at about 12.40am (1740 GMT Sunday), sending people fleeing into a hotel car park, where another bomb was hidden.
A police officer in Thailand’s southern Narathiwat province said that explosives had been packed into cigarette packets, which were planted inside a hotel disco.
Another blast hit a hotel karaoke bar, he said.
Later in nearby Yala province, one person was killed and four were injured when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a restaurant, police said.
More than 2,800 people have been killed in four years of separatist unrest in Thailand’s south, which was an ethnic Malay sultanate until Buddhist Thailand annexed it a century ago, provoking decades of tension.