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Reuters

Thai police said on Monday they had arrested a suspect linked to Muslim separatists in connection with a wave of bombings in tourist towns last month that killed four people and wounded dozens, including foreigners.
The bombs and arson attacks in various towns south of Bangkok including Hua Hin, Surat Thani and on Phuket island, raised fears that a Muslim separatist insurgency, for years largely confined to three deep-south, Muslim-majority provinces, was spreading.
Bombs in Thai resort towns kill four, injure 19, including foreigners

Police have issued several warrants in connection with the blasts but the suspect detained on Saturday, identified as Abdul Kadae, was the first person to be arrested.
“The suspect is currently in military custody where he is being interrogated,” police deputy spokesman Krisana Pattanacharoen said.
Blast kills one, wounds 30 in southern Thailand
Police said Kadae was from Pattani, one of the three troubled, Muslim-majority provinces in the far south of predominantly Buddhist Thailand, and he had connections to separatists.
They did not elaborate but said he was suspected of arson in Trang province as part of the Aug. 11-12 wave of attacks.
Kadae can be held in military custody for up to seven days before he is allowed access to a lawyer.
Thailand’s forgotten war: recent blasts force southern insurgency back into the spotlight
More than 6,500 people have been killed in the largely ethnic-Malay provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat since a separatist insurgency resurfaced there in 2004, according to the group Deep South Watch, which monitors the conflict.


Thai police arrest first suspect in connection with tourist-town bombs

Members of the Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad inspect the wreckage of vehicles after a car bomb attack at a hotel in Pattani, southern Thailand, on 24 August. Photo: EPA

epaselect epa05476227 Thai forensic police officers and member of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) inspect a scene, where a bomb exploded on late 11 August, at a popular tourist area in Hua Hin, Thailand, 12 August 2016. A series of bomb attacks in the resort city of Hua Hin killed at least two people and injured more than 20 people including foreign tourists. EPA/RUNGROJ YONGRIT

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