KOH SAMUI — A 27-year-old Thai man confessed to robbing and raping a Russian tourist on the island of Samui, police said Monday. Sattawat Choomee admitted upon his arrest he pretended to be a victim of the ongoing flood Friday night and asked the woman for a motorcycle ride home, Koh Samui police said. He […]
Flood has receded in Krabi township this morning and the Petkasem highway is now reopened to normal traffic after heavy flooding submerged the province and turned the highway into a klong, impassable to all vehicles in the last several days. Krabi mayor Kirasak Phukaoluan said Monday that flooding was gone, leaving behind a trail of […]
SURAT THANI – Divers have found the body of a Japanese tourist who went missing on a diving trip on Tuesday. Somchai Noppasri, chief of Koh Phangan police station, said on Sunday the body of Takahiro Satoya was found trapped in a rock on Saturday near the location where he had been reported missing on […]
Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha has ordered troops to be sent to southern provinces to help flood victims, Army spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree disclosed on Saturday. About 4,000 troops, 122 trucks and 26 flat-bottomed boat have been dispatched to flood-hit provinces together with two medic teams and two mobile kitchens which will prepare food for distribution […]
POLICE yesterday rescued five tourists from a flood-hit resort in Nakhon Si Thammarat province. Two are Finnish, one is German, and two others are Thai. Marine Police Division chief Maj-General Krittapon Yeesakorn said yesterday that the tourists had been stranded at the resort in Khanom district because floodwater was too high for them to wade […]
PHUKET: A Trang bound bus travelling from Phuket crashed in Krabi last night (Jan 6) leaving all 22 passengers on board injured. A rescue team from Krabi received information at 9:30pm yesterday where it was reported that a Phuket-Trang bus had crashed into an electricity pylon on Phet Kasem Rd in Ao Luek, Krabi. Full […]
Director-general of the Department of Civil Aviation Mr Darun Sangchai said Nakhon Si Thammarat airport has announced the closure of the airport for two days, beginning today after floodwater began to submerge the end its Runway 19. This prompted the airport to shut off its power supply to the navigation lights on the runway and […]
PHETCHABURI: — Fourteen South Korean tourists on their way to Hua Hin were taken to hospital after a smash involving their bus and three other vehicles last night. The crash occurred in wet weather conditions. Full story: Thaivisa News Thaivisa / Daily News
