Last month's bombings in Thai tourist towns were not linked to Muslim separatists, Thailand's defense minister Prawit Wongsuwan said.

There has been a series of bomb attacks in the central part and in the south, including coordinated bombings in tourist towns in August that killed four people and wounded dozens, including foreigners.

Analysts and the police say separatist insurgents in the country's three southern Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani bordering Malaysia were behind the attacks. So far, two suspects have been arrested in connection with the tourist-town attacks, Reuters reported.

According to the minister of defense, despite the fact that the detainees are from the south of the country it doesn't mean that there is a link with separatists in the south of the country.