A Thai forensic expert stands by a crater following a bomb blast in Thailand's insurgency-torn southern Narathiwat province. Seven soldiers were killed Wednesday in a bomb attack by separatist insurgents in Thailand's restive south, military and police said.(AFP/File/Madaree Tohlala)

Thai police inspect the wreckage of a vehicle after a roadside bomb attack in Thailand's Narathiwat province, nearly 1149 km (713 miles) south of Bangkok on May 9, 2007. A roadside bomb killed seven soldiers in a pick-up truck in Muslim majority southern Thailand on Wednesday, one of the single deadliest attacks in three years of separatist unrest, army and police officers said. REUTERS/Stringer (THAILAND)