A SMALL homemade bomb exploded at a mosque in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on today, injuring a Myanmar migrant worker, police said.
Witnesses told police that two men riding a motorcycle threw the explosive device at the mosque in central Chiang Mai.
The migrant suffered moderate injuries to his arm and hand, while the garage and some lights at the mosque were damaged, police said.
Police refused to say if they thought the attack was linked to the bomb blasts that killed three on New Year's Eve in Bangkok.
Chiang Mai has the biggest Muslim community outside the insurgency-plagued provinces of southern Thailand, but the two communities have little in common other than their shared religion.
While the southern provinces along the Malaysian border suffer almost daily attacks that have killed more than 1700 people over three years, no insurgent violence has been reported in Chiang Mai.
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