BANGKOK: Nearly two dozen bomb and arson attacks erupted across Thailand’s insurgency-torn south shortly after midnight, the army said Friday, causing widespread blackouts but no casualties in the Muslim-majority region.

The violence, which saw more than 50 electricity poles toppled by explosives and tires set alight, struck only hours after Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn signed a new military-backed charter into law.

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