Five people were injured in a bomb attack on Monday morning in Waeng sub-district of Thailand's restive southernmost province of Narathiwas.

The bomb was aimed to attack a security force guarding monks who traveled around a village in Waeng sub-district in the morning for daily alms food-collection, the website by Thai-language newspaper Thai Rath reported Monday.

According to a preliminary report, a 5-kilogram bomb was hidden in a garbage on a roadside and exploded while the security force and the monks were passing.

A soldier was among the five injured people. The four remainder injured included a monk, a teacher, a student, and a villager.

The villager was waiting to give food to the monks while the bomb exploded. The teacher and student were passengers of a car, which was also hit by the bomb, while it was arriving to pick up them to school.

The country's deep South comprises mainly three southernmost provinces, Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat, and some parts of Songkla province. Insurgent violence has killed over 3,500 people in the deep South since its resurrection in January 2004.

Source:Xinhua