PHATTHALUNG, Dec 22 — Eighteen apparently illegally trafficked ethnic Rohingya migrants, including three children, were injured yesterday when their pickup truck overturned in this southern province, police said. The driver of the vehicle lost control and it overturned in a village here, police said. Read more: MCOT
PHANGNGA — Police are looking for 10 Rohingya migrants who fled from a detention centre in Muang district of this southern province early Monday. The 10, all men, fled from the central Phangnga immigration office. Read more: Bangkok Post
NARATHIWAT, Dec 19 – At least three more persons have drowned, some 80 schools are closed indefinitely and a large agricultural areas have been destroyed as heavy rains and severe flooding continue in Thailand’s deep southern provinces, officials said today. Heavy flooding is still occurring in all 13 districts of Narathiwat province, areas which have […]
A chartered bus with about 45 officials of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s Thaweewatana district crashed in Kiensa district of Surat Thani province early Wednesday, injuring 21 people, three seriously. The city officials were on a trip to Krabi province for a seminar. Read more: thaipbs.or.th
The hunt for escaped convicted murderer Surasak Sardsamai, who last week fled from Ratchaburi Hospital where he was sent to receive lymphoma treatment, has stepped up with the formal issuing of an arrest warrant on Tuesday. Read more: Bangkok Post BANGKOK POST
SONGKHLA — Security officers have detained two men accused of engineering the coordinated bombing attacks that rocked Songkhla province in May. Usman Daman, 27, and Adae Che-ubong, 29, were arrested this morning by soldiers and police officers in Songkhla province and taken to the headquarters of 41st Army Ranger Unit for interrogation, security officers say. […]
Insurgents detonated a roadside homemade bomb on a village road in Narathiwat’s Ruesoh district Wednesday, injuring three troops. Police said the explosion occurred at 11:40 am. Insurgents detonated the bomb when four troops on two motorcycles were passing by on their routine patrol. The troops were slightly injured. News source: The Nation
The driver was killed and 15 passengers slightly injured when an air-conditioned inter-provincial bus travelling from Krabi to Bangkok ran into the back of a parked refrigerated truck in Phetchaburi province in the early hours of Tuesday. Read more: Bangkok Post
