NARATHIWAT, July 7 – One soldier was killed and three others wounded on Saturday during a bomb attack in Narathiwat’s Cho-airong district. The injured were admitted to a local hospital before being transferred to Naradhiwasrajanagarindra Hospital. The four soldiers were riding in a pick-up truck while on a local duty. Read more: MCOT
YALA, July 3 – An assistant village head was killed as bomb exploded when his car passed over a buried bomb in this restive southern province on Tuesday afternoon. The victim was identified as Marammuelee Eyuno, 49, assistant head of Buemang village. He was returning home after a meeting at the Raman district office. Read […]
YALA, July 3 – Five Thai army soldiers in a military transport vehicle were wounded by a bicycle bomb in the southern province of Yala on Tuesday. The violence occurred as the soldiers were leaving their base at Wat Lam Mai in Lam Mai sub-district for their daily duties. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, July 2 – Thailand’s Ministry of Public Health has distributed some 60,000 health masks to local residents in five southern provinces as smog from Indonesian forest fires has blanketed the region. Public Health Minister Witthaya Buranasiri said that smog, an annual occurrence from forest fire on Indonesia’s Sumatra has covered five provinces in southern […]
SONGKHLA, 2 July 2012 (NNT) – Smoke plumes caused by seasonal wildfires burning across Sumatra Island are now covering several southern provinces of Thailand, including Songkhla, Satun, Yala and Narathiwat. The thick haze shrouding parts of Thailand’s southern region has caused poor visibility, leading to disruption to sea traffic in Songkhla province. Fishermen in the […]
PATTANI, June 29 – Two defence volunteers were gunned down in Saiburi district of this southern border province Friday morning, local police said. The victims were identified as Wiwat In-iad, 42, and Kritsana Thepsao, 34. Read more: MCOT
The Appeals Court yesterday handed down a death sentence to Koseng or Useng Jeloh, a leading member of the separatist movement, Pattani United Liberation Organisation (Pulo), but then reduced it to life on grounds that his testimony was useful to the case. Koseng was charged with rebellion and illegal assembly of weapons and men for […]
Police Thursday announced a Bt1 million reward for information leading to the arrest of two armed robbers and the 80 per cent retrieval of Bt6 million-worth gold ornaments that the robbers stole from a gold shop in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Thab Sakae district. Following the robbery in which two suspects, each armed with a shotgun, […]
