NARATHIWAT, Jan 24 – Three more suspected insurgents surrendered to the police in this violence-plagued southern border province, following almost 100 people turning themselves in last September. Chamnun Mueandam, Narathiwat deputy governor and Army special unit commander Maj-Gen Phisit Sitthisarn received the three men at the special unit office on Thursday. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, 23 January 2013 (NNT) – Seven southern provinces are witnessing an increase in malaria cases, with the biggest number of patients reported in Surat Thani and Ranong. The Disease Control Office in Nakhon Si Thammarat said last year, a total of 2,887 cases of malaria were reported with 1 fatality. This year, 25 people […]
Songkhla Provincial Administrative Organisation president Uthit Chuchuay has been arrested and charged with conspiring and masterminding last November’s fatal shooting of Songkhla municipality mayor Peera Tantiserani, police said Wednesday. Songkhla civic sector and academics believe the assassination stems from a political conflict over Peera’s opposition to a cable-car system over Songkhla Lake. Read more: The […]
Three Army rangers from a teacher protection unit became the latest casualties of a suspected insurgency attack when they were injured by a blast during a routine patrol near a school in Khok Phoe in Pattani yesterday morning. The bomb exploded as a unit of four soldiers patrolled about 30 metres from Ban Pa-Born School. […]
A 12-year-old boy became the latest victim of the violence in the deep south while travelling on a motorcycle with his stepfather and mother in Pattani’s Nong Chik district on Monday night. Nawaphol Li succumbed to head injuries at Nong Chik Hospital while his stepfather, Narong Kongtong, 45, was seriously injured from gunshot wounds to […]
More than 30 searchers took about an hour to find a lost German tourist in a Koh Phangan forest. After the sun set, it became too dark for her to find her way out. After calling for help with her cell phone, she was later found by the rescue party that included high-powered tourism officials. […]
Muslim insurgents shot dead a Yala villager on Thursday night before ambushing the authorities inspecting the scene with a roadside bomb. Fortunately, no one was injured when the bomb was detonated in Uber village in Tambon Bacho of Yala’s Bannang Sata district. Read more: The Nation By The Nation
Pattani – Two highway policemen and a janitor were killed in a drive-by shooting in this southern border province late Friday night. The shooting occurred at 10:30 pm on the Pattanai-Narathiwat Road in Karubi village in Pattani’s Sai Buri district. Read more: The Nation
