Two students and six other civilians were injured by the explosion of an M67 grenade thrown by a militant in the old market area of Yala’s Muang district about 7.35am on Wednesday, police said.

Witnesses told police that a man wearing a university student’s uniform and riding a motorcycle threw the grenade at a pickup truck carrying soldiers and then fled.

The bomb missed its target and fell onto the road in front of Soi Siroros in the old market area and went off, injuring two passing students, one seriously, and six other people, according to police.

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