A bomb blast rocked a busy night market wounding 20 people in southern Thailand, where an Islamic insurgency has killed more than 2,000 people since early 2004.A handwritten note found at the scene said the attack Monday in Pattani province's Muang district was revenge for a deadly weekend bombing at a mosque, said police Lt. Somjit Nasomyon.
Saturday's mosque bombing killed a Muslim man and injured three others. While the note blamed Thailand's Buddhist-dominated security forces, authorities said they suspected the attackers in that bombing were Muslim militants bent on stirring up communal tension.
Monday's bomb was hidden in the front basket of a motorcycle, which was parked in front of a Muslim food stall in the market in Muang district, said Somjit. The 20 wounded people, four of them severely hurt, were rushed to the hospital.
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