The car bomb at the Central Festival shopping centre on Koh Samui late Friday night might have been caused by a local business or political conflict, according to a report from the government committee on solving problems in the southern border provinces.

The committee, which consists of southern military and police authorities in the lower South, reported that the bombers might be from the far South because evidence from the scene showed expertise in car bomb making and the pickup truck used to carry the bomb had been stolen from the southern border province of Yala.

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