YALA, Feb 13 – A roadside bombing in this southern border province left ten paramilitary rangers wounded, Bannang Sata police chief said on Monday. The explosion hit a pickup truck carrying the rangers on their way to relieve an earlier shift of their peers giving security to teachers and students in Narathiwat’s Ruso district. Read […]
BANGKOK, 10 February 2012 (NNT) – Thai Army Chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha has criticized the mastermind of the car bomb in front of Pattani’s Provincial Health Office yesterday morning as showing no consideration for innocent bystanders. The explosion killed 1 person and injured 15 others. The General said the army has always been extra alert […]
PATTANI, Feb 9 – One person is dead and 14 were injured in a car bombing ambush of a Ministry of Public Health vehicle in Pattani while two soldiers in a teacher protection unit were wounded on duty in a separate bombing in Narathiwat. Minister of Public Health Wittaya Buranasiri said he was informed about […]
SURAT THANI, Feb 7 – Thailand’s southern province of Surat Thani will host a mass wedding ceremony at sea on popular Koh Phangan Island next week on the special occasion of Valentine’s Day. Surat Thani Deputy Governor Chalorsak Vanitchareon and Ko Pha-ngan District Chief Prawes Thaiprayoon jointly told a news briefing on Tuesday that the […]
SONGKHLA, 6 February 2012 (NNT) – The special army force in Songkhla has cooperated with police and administrative officers in setting up a permanent checkpoint on the path to the three southernmost provinces in order to intercept drug smuggling. The checkpoint, which has been set up on Asia road in Jana district, Songkhla province, is […]
The riot by inmates at Trang prison came to a halt after the Governor met with representatives of the prisoners and reached a compromise. Trang Governor Senee Jitkasem met at 1pm with five inmates representing some 100 prisoners who had protested what they described as harsh conditions in jail after the transfer of a warden. […]
YALA, Feb 5 – Two defence volunteers were shot dead on Sunday morning in the southern border province of Yala while travelling to escort monks during morning alms rounds. An unknown number of concealed attackers ambushed them from the roadside. Read more: MCOT
A ten-wheel truck driver was gunned down at a teashop in Pattani’s Muang district early Saturday morning, police said. Pol Lt Fahamee Hengpeeya, an investigator at Muang Pattani police station, said he received a report about the shooting in Ban Sungai Panae in tambon Bana of Muang district. Read more: Bangkok Post
