Two soldiers on patrol were wounded Friday morning in Thailand's violence-plagued southern border province Yala after suspected insurgents detonated a roadside bomb.

The blast happened at 8.45 a.m. (0145 GMT) in Yaha district, Yala, destroying the Humvee boarding the soldiers, the English newspaper Bangkok Post reported on its website Friday.

Meanwhile, more than 200 villagers, most of them women and children, blocked a road in Yala's Raman district Friday morning, demanding the troops move out of the area and find a military man who allegedly shot one villager on Thursday. Police and soldiers were trying to control the crowd, the report said.

Insurgent violence has been escalating in the last few months in Thailand's three southernmost provinces -- Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani, where nearly 2,000 people were killed in the past three years.

Source: Xinhua