BANGKOK, March 7 (UPI) -- A grenade attack injured at least two people and preceded a bomb explosion that damaged vehicles and apartments in Thailand, police said.
A former paramilitary ranger was shot to death in a separate incident.
The grenade and bomb blasts blasts damaged 18 vehicles and several apartments used by police in the Si Sakhon district of Narathiwat. A police officer and villager were injured in the grenade attack, the Bangkok Post reported.
Police said a grenade was tossed into a house modified into a grocery shop. As police responded, a bomb in a vehicle parked beneath an apartment building was set off, causing a thunderous explosion, witnesses said.
Investigators described the explosive as a 50-kilogram bomb and said it had been placed in a gas cylinder and hidden beneath the front seat of a pickup truck and remotely activated with a mobile phone.
The former ranger was shot and killed as he was returning home from work, the Post reported.
The Thung Yang Daeng police chief said the victim, Sathorn Damsong, was followed by two men who shot him in the head.
