The death toll from coordinated bombings in Thailand's strife-torn far south increased to 14, with hundreds wounded, police said Sunday. Saturday's bomb attacks were coordinated across three provinces and included the fire at the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in Hat Yai, said national police chief Priewpan Damapong. Police had initially reported that the fire that killed three people at the hotel was caused by a gas pipe explosion. But Priewpan confirmed on Sunday that it was because of a car bomb in the underground parking lot, the government news service reported.
