HAT YAI, Thailand—Police said Wednesday they were trying to identify the suspect in a bombing of police housing that killed one officer and wounded 45 other people in a part of southern Thailand troubled by a Muslim separatist insurgency for almost two decades.
Police said the suspect drove a black pickup truck into the compound then walked out after parking the vehicle. He was dressed to look like a plainclothes officer in the images captured by a surveillance camera. The wounded victims were mostly civilians, including three children.
Since the insurgency began in 2004, more than 7,300 people have been killed in Narathiwat, Pattani, and Yala, the only provinces with Muslim majorities in Buddhist-dominated Thailand. Attacks have also taken place in the neighboring Songkhla Province. Several separate insurgent groups are active, some of which are engaged on on-again, off-again peace talks with the government….