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More than 40 attacks were reported across 17 districts of these four provinces. Eleven attacks – six bombings, four arson incidents, and one tanker theft – were reported in five districts of Narathiwat, Pol Maj Gen Patthanawuth Angkhanawin, chief of the Narathiwat provincial police said. In Yala, 11 ATM bomb attacks in Muang, Yaha and Bannang Sata districts were reported. Suspected insurgents stole an empty tanker usually used for carrying water from Narathiwat’s Rueso district and filled it with fuel. They hosed the fuel onto a building at Ja Kwa police station in Yala’s Raman district. Police caught them in the act. The attackers fled before they could set fire to the oil-soaked building. A total of 15 attacks were reported in six prada bags on sale districts of Pattani including 12 ATM bombings, one bomb attack, one arson attack, and a combination of a petrol bomb attack and shooting. Deputy Prime Minister Pracha Promnok, who is in charge of internal security, said the spate of attacks was intended as a show of the insurgency’s combat potential, to mark the founding anniversaries of the BRN and the Pulo. The BRN was created on Oct 10, 1963 and Pulo on Oct 11, 1968. Thailand has about 60,000 troops stationed in the south, where nearly a decade of conflict has left more than 5,700 people dead. Editor: Mu Xuequan Mercury is a heavy metal that can be released into the air and water through activities such as small-scale gold mining and cheap beats by dre pro waste incineration. It is found in products such as some thermometers, batteries and skin-lightening creams, too. Exposure to mercury can cause damage to the brain, heart, lungs, kidneys and nervous and immune systems. However, the agreement will only take effect when at least 50 countries sign it and ratify it domestically. 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