SONGKHLA, Jan 30 – Two Malaysian men were arrested in southern Thailand Monday for smuggling pangolins—an endangered species commonly known as the spiny anteater– while passing through the inbound immigration border checkpoint in Sadao district. Forty-five pangolins weighing over 100kg were found in 24 net bags hidden under the back seat of the suspects’ vehicle. […]
Four local residents dead, five wounded in roadside attack on their vehicle in Pattani PATTANI, Jan 30 – One Thai government ranger was wounded in a presumed insurgent assault on their Pattani base, while four local residents were killed, and five were wounded, in a roadside attack on their vehicle somewhat later. The authorities believe […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 26 – Presumed insurgents targeted an armoured vehicle carrying the Rangae district chief and four defence volunteers in a roadside bombing ambush on Thursday, but all escaped unharmed in the incident. The attackers detonated a five kg explosive device in Rangae district Thursday morning as the vehicle carrying district chief Suppawarit Petchkan and […]
BANGKOK, 25 January 2012 (NNT) – Victims of the Thailand’s southern insurgency are calling for the government to compensate them at the same rate as that given to families of people who died in political rallies. Chairman of the senate committee on southern problems Mr. Anusart Suwanmongkol recently held a press conference to urge the […]
Insurgents behind the violence in Southern Thailand have used their attacks to draw attention from international organisations in a bid to draw them into the problems, Army Commander in Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha said Monday. “The problems are the country’s internal affairs and we are making our best efforts to deal with them. The presence […]
Insurgents in Pattani yesterday launched an attack on a naval security outpost in Sai Buri district, in an attempt to draw a relief force into an ambush trap where a roadside bomb and gunfire wounded six marines. Insurgents launched an attack with automatic weapons on the outpost for 10 minutes at around 6 pm. The […]
An assistant village headman was shot dead, while the head of a Tambon Prik health promotion unit was seriously injured in an ambush yesterday in Songkhla’s Sadao district. Assistant headman Songkran Chairit, 38, and health unit head Chamnan Suwannasri, 42, were driving in Songkran’s car in Tambon Prik around 12.15am yesterday, when unknown gunmen in […]
A state employee was shot dead on the Manang Dalam-Kapho road near a village in tambon Karubi in Pattani’s Kapho district this afternoon. He was identified as Vorasit Phuenpha, 39, a local state employee. Read more: Bangkok Post
