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Bomb kills father and daughter at school in Thailand's troubled south

A school bag lies on a street next to the site of a bomb attack at Tak Bai district in the troubled southern province of Narathiwat, Thailand

Bangkok: A motorcycle bomb killed a father and daughter in front of a Thai elementary school as parents were dropping off their children on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks in the troubled south.

The bomb went off in Narathiwat province, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand where a separatist insurgency has been raging since 2004.

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