"A suspected insurgent was arrested following one of the attacks," the newspaper quotes a local police source as saying.
The attacks began at the Tanyongmus Market in the Rangae district at 6:20 am local time (10.20 p.m. Sunday GMT), when a 5-kg bomb exploded, injuring ten people, including a monk, Thailand News Agency (TNA) said.
Following the initial explosion, a series of other blasts, apparently triggered by mobile phone calls, ripped through the province.
There is as yet no exact detail on the number of casualties, although many of the bombs, thought to have numbered eight in total, went off early in the morning when few people were on the streets.
At least four terrorist organizations, with membership numbering around one thousand, operate in the southårn part of Thailand. Their aim is to create an independent Islamic state.
Violence broke out in the south on January 4, 2004, after an attack on a Royal Army camp, which left four soldiers dead. Since 2004, terrorist attacks have become almost routine in the country, killing a total of 2,300 people.
