Four people murdered and 25 wounded in a bomb attack in south Thailand—and notice that Reuters includes the bombers in their count: Bomb kills 6, wounds 25 in Thai Muslim south.

PATTANI, Thailand, Dec 4 (Reuters) - A motorcycle bomb exploded outside a busy restaurant in Thailand’s rebellious Muslim south on Tuesday, killing six people, including two boys, government officials said. Two Muslim men died instantly when the bomb, left in a motorcycle parked in front of the restaurant, exploded in Pattani, one of four southern provinces where more than 2,600 have been killed in nearly four years of insurgency, an army spokesman said.

“We suspect the two dead men might have been the bombers who failed to escape before the bomb exploded,” Acra Tiproch said by telephone from the Muslim south.

Two women and two boys died at the hospital where 25 wounded people were being treated, Pattani’s deputy governor Vinai Kruvanapat told reporters at the hospital.

(Hat tip: Ringo.)