The bombings Attack followed the earlier riots Violence in the city in November - December the previous year , when a violent Violence clash Violence between muslims led Causation by radical group Al Umma and police force resulted in killing Killing of 18 Muslim rioters by police firing Use_firearm and murder Killing of 2 police personal .

over 6,500 people died Death and almost 12,000 were injured Bodily_harm between 2004 and 2015 in a formerly ethnic separatist insurgency , which has currently been taken over Change_of_leadership by hard-line jihadis and pitted them against both the unk buddhist minority and local muslims who have a moderate approach Action or who support Supporting the thai government .