BANGKOK: Muslim insurgents detonated more than 20 homemade explosives across Thailand's south, the army said on Monday, in a night of violence undermining junta claims of headway in peace talks with the rebels.

The mainly Buddhist kingdom's southern border provinces have been plagued by a 14-year fight between ethnic Malay militants and the Thai state that has left nearly 7,000 dead.

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