Suspected insurgents shot dead three rangers and a housekeeper before burning their pick-up in Yala’s Muang district yesterday morning. Police suspect members of a militant group led by Abdul Roseh Jarong from nearby Tambon Khao Toom in Pattani’s Yarang district carried out the attack. Read more: The Nation
SURAT THANI: Two people were killed and 20 seriously injured in a collision between a packed interprovincial bus and an 18-wheel truck early Saturday morning. The accident occurred near a U-turn on the Punpin-Nong Karee Road in front of a petrol station in Muang Tha Kang municipality of Punpin district at 5.30am, said Pol Lt […]
An Off-Duty Police Officer was shot and killed as he attended an armed robbery call in Baan Chang, Rayong on Tuesday. The incident occurred at the Jong Ta Worn Gold Shop inside the Baan Chang Market in the afternoon while Police Senior Sergeant Major Wiwat aged 47 was off-duty. He had just returned home from […]
BANGKOK, 7 September 2012 (NNT) – Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung has proposed to turn Thailand’s southern border provinces into a special administrative zone, in hopes of reducing violence in the region. Talking to the press on Friday, Police Captain Chalerm said that he had received confidential information about wrongdoers in various violent incidents in […]
A banana festival in Yala’s Bannang Sata district is continuing despite a bomb exploding at the festival venue on Thursday night. The blast went off shortly before midnight inside Bannang Sata Indhrachat School where the “Hin Banana” festival is being held. There was a show on the stage at that time. Read more: The Nation
SATUN, 6 September 2012 (NNT) – A cargo ship capsized off the Andaman coast near Satun province yesterday; its crew members are still missing. Satun Water Police Division 3 chief Police Lieutenant Colonel Bancherd Manavej has disclosed that a cargo vessel named Supsuwan reportedly capsized west of Tarutao island in Satun after it was battered […]
BANGKOK, 6 September 2012 (NNT)-Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha told the Thai public not to panic over the sight of Malaysian flags put up by insurgents in many locations in the South, pledging that the sovereignty of Thailand remains intact. He also said Malaysian authorities do not condone the action and they are, too, trying […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 5 – Hours before Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was to visit Narathiwat today four Thai Army soldiers were wounded in a bomb booby-trap incident as they were on foot patrol today. The soldiers saw a cloth placard with a challenging message while they were on a routine foot patrol. They stepped on a […]
