泰国南部也拉府31日发生连环爆炸袭击事件，导致至少8人死亡，数十人受伤。据当地媒体报道，当天中午时分，也拉府一处商业区十字路口周边接连发生3起爆炸，均由汽车炸弹爆炸引发。据泰国通讯社报道，至少60人在爆炸中受伤，其中8人伤势严重，已被送往附近医院救治。也拉府官员说，伤者包括一些老人和儿童，没有外国人。警方怀疑这起袭击事件是南部分离主义武装人员所为。自2004年初以来，泰国南部分离主义武装人员活动频繁，也拉、那拉提瓦和北大年三府以及宋卡府部分地区经常发生爆炸、枪击、绑架等暴力事件。

Eight people are dead and at least seventy injured, after a series of bomb explosions in southern Thailand. It's the latest in a wave of attacks blamed on Muslim separatists in the region.

Police say three bombs went off in the business district of Yala city at around lunchtime on Saturday. The devices are thought to have been placed in a car or motorbike. The governor of Yala province told Thai television that many of the injured were hit by the third bomb as they gathered at the scene. Since January 2004, similar attacks have killed over 5,000 people in Muslim-dominated Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat provinces.