Deadly blasts rock Thai city
(CNN) -- Three apparently coordinated explosions tore through the city of Hat Yai in Thailand's Muslim south Sunday, killing one person and wounding dozens of others, police said.
The first blast occurred at 8:30 p.m. (9:30 a.m. ET), when a bomb hidden inside a suitcase detonated at a check-in counter at Hat Yai International Airport, about 800 km (500 miles) south of the capital city of Bangkok, killing one person and wounding more than 20 others, four seriously, police said. The airport was immediately closed.
Within 30 minutes, two more bombs erupted in commercial centers of the tourist and business center -- one hidden in a box in the Carrefour department store, where more than 20 people were wounded, and the third, also hidden in a box, at the Green World Palace Hotel, police said. No one was hurt in the final blast.
All three of the bombs were activated by cell phones, police said. No immediate claims of responsibility were made, they said.
CNN Producer Narunart Prapanya contributed to this story
