Two students were injured by shrapnel when their school bus was hit by an explosion in Narathiwat’s Yi Ngor district Thursday morning. Sitinuriya Baka, 14 and Nadia Jehama, 17, both of Romklao School were rushed to a nearby hospital before being transferred to Narathiwat Rachanakarin Hospital. Both suffered injuries to their arms. Read more: The […]
Security has been beefed up in Hat Yai, Songkhla on Wednesday following widespread reports and rumours that a suspected insurgent who is on the run may take refuge here. The authorities have distributed sketches of insurgents allegedly involved in last Friday’s car bomb in Pattani’s Saiburi district, in which six police officers and security officials […]
YALA, Sept 25 – A school employee was shot dead in Yala today, while a highway worker was severely wounded by a booby trap bomb in nearby Narathiwat. Jeyor Dam, a worker at Yata School was shot in the head and torso in Yala’s Raman district. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, Sept 24 – Army chief Gen Prayutha Chan-ocha said on Monday that he ordered more checkpoints and beefed up security in Thailand’s restive southern border provinces following last week’s car bomb which claimed six lives and wounded dozens in Pattani. Gen Prayuth said security personnel will step up their tactical moves as the insurgents […]
Two school directors and two soldiers were injured on Monday after insurgents triggered a bomb hidden in a pavilion where they were sitting in the latest violence in Narathiwat’s Bajoh district. The four Korde Laemaenae, director of Ban Batu School where the attack took place, Ma Dueramae, director of Ban Buenaepiyae School, Private Wattana Sridet […]
PATTANI, Sept 21 – Six people were killed and scores, most of them policemen, were injured in an explosion near a busy marketplace in this violence-plagued province in Thailand’s deep South today. Five persons died at the scene near the municipality fresh market in Saiuburi district’s Tambon Taluban. One victim was pronounced dead at hospital. […]
Wat Phra Mahathat Woromaha Vihan, a Buddhist temple complex in Nakhon Si Thammarat dating back to 311 (BE 854), has been nominated as a World Heritage site, pending approval by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, the Fine Arts Department said yesterday. A nomination dossier must be completed by February 1 for the temple […]
PATTANI, Sept 20 – A border patrol policeman was shot dead Thursday while driving on a road in this violence-plagued province in Thailand’s far South. Pol Sub-Lt Abdulloh Doloh, 56, left his office in a white Mistubishi sedan heading for home when four men in two motorcycles approached his car and shot at him. Read […]
