SURAT THANI, 27 November 2012 (NNT) – Authorities of Koh Samui in Surat Thani province have been ordered to stay alert around the clock after a downpour flooded many parts of the island yesterday. Samui district chief Prasert Jitmung, urged officials to remain vigilant and be prepared to help people escape rising waters. Many areas […]
Violence continued in Thailand’s deep southern province of Yala on Tuesday, with hundreds of schools in the region remaining closed on Tuesday as teachers’ associations protested the government’s failure to tackle insurgency problems. President of Teachers’ Federation in Narathiwat, Sanguan Indhrarak said that if the problems remained unsolved, more schools would be closed. Read more: […]
A school director was fatally shot near her school as she was driving to a funeral in Pattani’s Nong Chik district yesterday. Nuntana Kaewchan, 51, of Banta Kamcham School was shot in the face and torso. She was taken to a nearby hospital but succumbed to her injuries there. Read more: The Nation
A 30-year-old Japanese tourist visiting Surat Thani apparently committed a ritualistic Harakiri suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach in his hotel room. Police believe he had been pickpocketed, and speculated that the disturbed foreigner decide to die by the traditional way of the Samurai. Read more: Pattayadailynews.com Pattaya Daily News
Explosives stuffed inside a bottle damaged a motorcycle parked at a small mosque in Narathiwat’s Rusoh district yesterday but caused no injuries. Police were called at about 11am and rushed to scene with a bomb squad and forensic officials. Read more: The Nation
PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, 19 November 2012 (NNT) – A one-meter-high flash flood in Prachuap Khiri Khan province has affected over 100 households. A low pressure storm caused rains to persist in the province throughout the day yesterday. The raining culminated in a flash flood from Tanowsri mountain, which inundated Salalai and Silaloi sub-districts in Samroiyod […]
NARATHIWAT, Nov 19 – A number of railway stations in the southern border provinces are quiet today after train services were halted in the wake of Sunday’s bomb blast at Tanyongmus station, pending repairs to the damaged track. Three people died at the Rangae district station. Tanyongmus station and other State Railways of Thailand (SRT) […]
YALA, Nov 17 — One woman was killed and a dozen people were injured, including soldiers, from a motorcycle bomb attack in the southern province of Yala as many homes were damaged from fire resulting from the explosion. Yala police reported of incident where a bomb exploded in front of the Saeng Thai Lohakit shop […]
