Bomb kills father and daughter at school in Thailand

A motorcycle bomb killed a father and daughter in front of a Thai elementary school on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks in the troubled south.

The motorcycle bomb went off in Narathiwat province, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, where a separatist insurgency has been raging since 2004.

The motorcycle was parked opposite the school entrance when the blast went off, killing the man and his five-year-old daughter, the army's Internal Security Operations Command said, adding that eight other people were wounded.

"We suspect this to be the work of people who want to destabilise the situation and cause chaos," the deputy spokesman of the ISOC, Yuthanam Petchmuang said.

The attack occurred less than a month after a wave of bombings in tourist towns, including Hua Hin, Phuket and Surat Thani, killed four people and injured dozens.