NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Aug 25 (Reuters) - Forty-two people were wounded, at least four seriously, when a powerful bomb exploded outside a restaurant in Thailand's deep south on Tuesday, police said. The bomb, planted in a cooking gas cylinder and left in the back of a stolen pickup truck, was detonated outside a restaurant packed with civil servants. The attack took place in the main town in Narathiwat, one of three mainly Muslim provinces plagued by five years of separatist unrest. The bombing was the latest in a slew of attacks that have claimed 13 lives in the past week in the south, where rebels fighting the Thai state regularly target government officials. The region was once a Malay Muslim sultanate until annexed by Buddhist Thailand a century ago, and separatist tensions have simmered ever since. (Reporting by Surapan Boonthanom; Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Alan Raybould)
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