BANGKOK: At least one man was killed and 25 others were injured on Monday when a bomb exploded at a night market in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, officials said.

The bomb was hidden in a motorcycle, parked in front of a shop in Pattani, one of three insurgency-torn southern provinces bordering Malaysia, Pattani Governor Thanu Uthairat said.

“The explosion happened around 8:25 pm (1325 GMT) and most of the injured were shoppers,” the governor said. A Pattani hospital official said at least one man was killed and 25 others wounded.

The market bombing capped a day of violence in Pattani, where police found the headless and burned body of a 30-year-old Buddhist man, along with the charred body of his 14-year-old nephew, on a road earlier in the day.

The man's head was discovered a few kilometres away.—AFP