HAT YAI, Thailand (AP) — Police say suspected militants in Thailand’s insurgency-plagued south have detonated a motorcycle bomb that killed a 9-year-old boy and wounded 10 other people.

Police Col. Tuanday Juthanan said Thursday the insurgents hid an improvised bomb on a motorcycle near a commercial district in the city of Pattani and set it off during lunch break.

He said the explosion killed a 9-year-old boy and wounded 10 other people, all civilians. He said the boy died while being rushed to a nearby hospital.

The explosion also damaged seven cars and three motorcycles that were parked in the area.

Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat are the only Muslim-dominated provinces in the predominantly Buddhist country.

More than 5,000 people have been killed since an Islamist insurgency erupted in the sub-region in 2004.