PATTANI -- An assistant village headman was slightly hurt by bomb explosion in Khok Pho district on Thursday morning, police said.
A home-made bomb planted on a roadside went off shortly before 9am as a village security team led by Winij Ratwichian, 32, the assistant chief of Ban Mae Kang villlage in tambon Khuan Nori, was travelling in two trucks along a road in the village.
Mr Winij sufferred from pains in the chest and was later declared safe. One of the patrol vehicles was damaged.