(VOVworld) - A car bomb exploded Friday outside a hotel in southern Thai province of Yala, killing three people and wounding 36 others, said Lieutenant Colonel Sophon Saisuree, adding that of the wounded, three were in critical condition while 30 others had minor injuries. Thai police has warned of increasing instability in southern Thailand as Muslim people’s fast month Ramadan is reaching its end.

More than 6,100 people have been killed in near-daily bombings and shootings in the Muslim-majority region near Thailand’s southern border with Malaysia since 2004. The Thai junta has set out tasks of restoring peace in southern Thailand as a national top priority. Head of the junta government, General Prayuth Chan ocha confirmed that talks will be resumed to bring peace to provinces of Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat.