No one was injured as a bombing burnt a wholesale shop in Yaha district of Yala province at about 5.30am Saturday.
The explosion happened at a consumer-product wholesale shop on Santirat Road, a two-storey, three-unit wooden building.
About 10 fire engines were deployed and they took longer than two hours to control the blaze. The whole building was gutted and the damage was estimated at about 1 million baht.
Seconds before the incident, shopowner Worawat Lohawicharn heard two explosions near his shop. He ran out of the property before the fire broke out and quickly engulfed the building.
Police believe improvised explosive devices were placed with petrol containers and detonated.
Yaha police chief Pol Col Arkhom Buathong ordered subordinates to check security camera footage to try to identify a suspect.