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Bomb blasts at Sungai Golok Checkpoint

Report from The STAR (Malaysia) dated Wednesday 14 January 2009 :-

Bomb blasts at Malaysian-Thai border checkpoint

GOLOK : Two bombs exploded at the Malaysia-Thailand checkpoint Wednesday morning, destroying three new posts belonged to Thai immigration at the Golok bridge.

The first bomb went off at 6.30am (7.30am Malaysian time), destroying three of the six posts.

Fifteen minutes later another bomb exploded nearby, forcing the closure of the busy bridge which connects Golok in Thailand to Rantau Panjang in Kelantan.

Thai deputy consul-general in Malaysia, Niran Boonjit, told Bernama that no one was injured in the incident.

“The posts were being used by the Immigration Department as a temporary office and had not started operations yet. There was nobody near the place when the explosions occurred,” he said.

A Thai police spokesman told Bernama in Bangkok that both bombs, weighing 1kg and 2kg, were triggered using digital watches.

Members of the media were not allowed near the scene.

The bridge, which is open daily from 6am to 10pm, had been reopened and the situation returned to normal by Wednesday afternoon.

“The situation is under control. Everything is back to normal at the entry gate,” Niran said.

A worker at the checkpoint, Mokhtar Che Mat, said workers, fearing for their safety, had for cover upon hearing the explosions.

Tour guide Shaari Jusoh said the explosions could be heard in Rantau Panjang some 300m away.

Kelantan police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi said police were on the alert and had taken steps to ensure safety at the border.

He reminded Malaysians to be extra careful when visiting restive southern Thailand provinces.

More than 3,500 people have died since suspected separatists resumed their armed campaign to seek independence for the Muslim-majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.

--- KatoeyNewsNetwork