Incident Date:
September 16, 2006 21:00
Incident Successful: Yes
Location: Hat Yai Thailand
Perpetrators: Southern Thai Separatist Groups
Event Type: Bombing/Explosion
Weapon Type(s): Explosives/Bombs/Dynamite (Unknown Explosive Type)
Organization Type: Separatist,
Suicide Attack: No
Hoax: No
Violent Extremism:
Doubt Terror: No
Target Information
1- Business(Restaurant/Bar/CafeĢ)
2- Private Citizens & Property(Marketplace/Plaza/Square (where many people gather/crowd))
Canadian Target: No
Canadian Victim: Yes
Canadian Perpetrator:
By foreigners against foreign target(s) in Canada:
Victims: 5 fatalities, 60 injuries
Perpetrators: 0 fatalities, 0 injuries
Description: "09/16/2006: At about 9:00 p.m., six improvised explosive devices (IED) exploded at roughly five-minute intervals at a pub, near a shopping mall, in front of a hotel, at a movie theater, and at a superstore, in Hat Yai, Songkhla, Thailand. The blasts killed five civilians (three Thais; one Chinese; one Canadian), wounded about 60 others, and damaged the facilities. No group claimed responsibility."
References: 1) JANES DB
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