A motorcycle bomb exploded in a market in Thailand’s southern Yala province on Monday, killing three people and wounding 19. The mostly Muslim provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala in Thailand’s far south are home to a long-running insurgency by ethnic Malay Muslims fighting for autonomy in which more than 6,000 people have been killed since 2004. According to The Internatonal Crisis Group, separatist insurgency has had little in common with jihadism. Rooted in the country’s nearly two million Malay Muslims, who constitute a majority in the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, its aspirations are nationalist in nature. The United Kingdom Foreign Office has warned tourists of high terror threat amid ongoing insurgency.