PATTANI, March 17 – A bomb ambush in Yarang district killed 1 female student and injured 4 others while they were on their way home on three motorcycles after final exams, while authorities believed the explosion was aimed at paramilitary rangers. The deceased victim was 19-year-old girl Hamsau Sa-de from Prasan Wittaya School, a muslim […]
PATTANI, YALA, March 15 – Violence continued unabated in Thailand’s southern border region on Thursday with one policeman and one villager killed in separate roadside bomb ambushes in Pattani and Yala. The first incident took place in Pattani province when presumed insurgents detonated an explosive device buried alongside the Pattani-Yala 410 Road. Read more: MCOT
Narathiwat province authorities say drug traffickers and the southern insurgency are closely connected, and sought to seize 1,400 rai of land they say is also involved in extortion rackets. Provincial police chief Chote Chawalwiwat said several properties are thought to be linked to drugs rings and insurgency groups. He said drug traffickers were in league […]
BANGKOK, March 13 – Thailand’s Cabinet on Tuesday approved further extension of the emergency decree in the three southern border provinces for another three months. Formally termed the Executive Decree on Public Administration in Emergency Situations, the measure first took effect on July 19, 2005 in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala. It was renewed for three […]
BANGKOK, 13 March 2012 (NNT) – Thai Deputy Prime Minister Police Captain Chalerm Yubumrung has expressed his confidence that the drug situation in the South is now under control, confirming that it is a separate issue from the local insurgency. Following recent arrests of drug dealers in the southern region, Police Captain Chalerm indicated that […]
Two soldiers were severely injured when muslim insurgents detonated a home-made bomb hidden inside a motorcycle to ambush a patrol unit in Pattani on Monday morning. The explosion occurred at 9am on the Johkueyae – Sai Buri Road in Johkueyae village, Tambon Tabing, Sai Buri district. Read more: The Nation
SURAT THANI, March 11 – Rail service in Surat Thani has resumed Sunday afternoon after a collision earlier the same morning with a truck left 35 persons hospitalised. Jane Wongsrida, the train driver, Theerayuth Prempramote, the mechanic, and the truck driver, unidentified, were severely injured. Read more: MCOT
BANGKOK, March 10 (Thailand News) – The Bangkok-Yala train crashed with a fuel truck in Phun Phin railway intersection, Surat Thani, leaving several passengers injured, local press reported. Unofficial sources said 50 people were injured, two train drivers seriously. An unknown number of people were trapped inside wreckage of the passenger train. Source: FireDept33 and […]
