PRANBURI: — Police in Pranburi and hunting three men who attacked and robbed two foreign tourists from Morocco and Italy. The men – in their twenties – were in Thailand to study at a Thai boxing school in the Sam Roi Yot area, reported Manager Online. The were robbed of money and other valuables including […]
Yala – The body of a man who was shot and abducted by armed men on Tuesday night was found dumped in a ditch near a paddy field in Muang district late on Wednesday morning. The body of Adisorn Sukkhakhen, 24, was identified by relatives. Full story: Bangkok Post MUHAMMAD AYUB PATHAN AND MALUDING DEETO
SURAT THANI — A male elephant was electrocuted when bamboo stems tangled high-voltage power transmission lines while he was browsing in Khian Sa district of this southern province on Monday. Thanongchai Churak, 37, the elephant’s owner, said he tethered 24-year-old Phlai Singthong in a grove of bamboo to allow him to eat. Full story: Bangkok […]
PHETCHABURI: A Thai neighbour charged with murdering a Swedish man in Cha-am claimed the victim had insulted him and his family many times, police said on Saturday. Pratheep Sangsiri, 42, a resident of tambon Rai Mai Pattana in Cha-am district, was arrested on a road in his community on murder charges on Saturday. Seized from […]
SURAT THANI, 22 July 2016 (NNT) – Forest police and administrative officials have joined forces to reclaim encroached areas of forest in Koh Pha Ngan District in Surat Thani Province. The special operations unit called Phaya Sua has seized three land plots in Ban Hat Yang Forest which is to be declared part of Than […]
YALA — A 51-year-old Muslim man accused of delivering a bomb to an army outpost in the southern province of Yala and found hanged in his cell room was ruled as suicide Thursday by police. Somjit Jarae was arrested Saturday in Yala’s Yaha district after it turned out the parcel he was delivering was actually […]
The anti-narcotic police on Tuesday announced the seizure of 22 million baht worth of methamphetamine or ya baa and the arrest of two suspected drug traffickers in Surat Thani province. The two suspects, 46-year old Tinnakorn Kulya and 38-year old Krisda Rodcharoenphan, were presented to the media together with about 920,000 tablents of ya bann […]
A Krabi-based deputy mayor was caught red-handed in a sting operation yesterday after he demanded money from a landowner. Anti-graft officials and police arrested Anusorn Wangphon, deputy mayor for the Tambon Koh Lanta municipality, when he received Bt2 million cash and a cheque for Bt5 million as bribes. Full story: The Nation
