BANGKOK, 4 January 2012 (NNT) – The government of Thailand has confirmed on Friday that victims of years of violence in strife-torn southern border region will be eligible for the THB7-million compensation as well. Mr. Yongyuth Wichaidit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, revealed that the Southern Border Provinces Development Strategy Committee has recently […]
A woman was shot dead in Pattani and an illegal oil vendor was killed in an ambush in Narathiwat on Friday morning, in attacks police blamed on insurgents. Saiburi police chief Arsis Umayee said a woman was killed and her husband and young son seriously injured in a drive-by shooting in Pattani’s Saiburi district this […]
SONGKHLA, Feb 2 – A subdistrict chief allegedly involved in both a drug syndicate and the insurgency in the southern region was detained Thursday in the Pattani provincial seat, according to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) for Region 9. The detainee was Maroning Jako, Talubo subdistrict chief, Pol Gen Adul Sangsingkeo, ONCB’s […]
A policeman was seriously wounded by two gunmen in Cho Airong district of Narathiwat province this afternoon. Pol Lt Kittikhun Pattamanusorn of Cho Airong police station said Pol Sr Sgt-Maj Veerachai Yudam, 40, was attacked while returning home on his motorcycle on the Yaning-Cho Airong road in tambon Chuap by two men on another motorcycle […]
PATTANI, Feb 1 – A defence volunteer was gunned down in this southern border province on his way back from sending his daughter to school on Wednesday morning. Thanong Sinthu, 40 was en route to his military base when two gunmen on a motorcycle followed him and shot the defence volunteer three times in his […]
BANGKOK, 1 February 2012 (NNT) – A team of military patrol and a villager have been injured by a remote control bomb while en route back to their base in Yala Province. On Tuesday evening, 4 military officers and a local resident were injured by a roadside bomb on Saai Baan Niang-Lum Mai Road in […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 31 – A village defence volunteer was shot dead on Tuesday in Bacho district of this southern border province while working on his garage. The dead man was identified as Buraheng Maha, 58. He was found lying dead next to a pickup truck in the unfinished garage. Read more: MCOT
A member of the Army’s 4306th paramilitary rangers company was accidentally shot and killed Monday night by a fellow ranger who was cleaning his weapon. Ranger Chamnan Sawangrat, based in Phatthalung, was shot in the chest when Ranger Keerati Bunkhrua accidentally discharged his AK47 rifle while cleaning it. The victim was walking past Keerati on […]
