PATTANI, Dec 30 – Three soldiers on Friday were wounded in two separate roadside bombings in the southern border provinces of Pattani and Yala, according to local authorities. In Pattani’s Yarang district, two members of a six-man teacher protection unit were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion on 410 Yala-Patttani Road, according to Pol Col […]
NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, Dec 28 – The southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat is prepared to evacuate coastal areas after a warning from the government’s disaster response agency Wednesday morning. The Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department warned seaside residents that ocean waves will intensify Dec 29-30, while strong, high waves continue to pummel shoreline in […]
The eastern coast of Thailand will likely face three to four more rounds of high and violent waves over the next few months, according to the Meteorological Department. Waves of up to five metres in height have been lashing many southern provinces since Sunday. “It’s the monsoon surge,” the department’s deputy director-general, Somchai Baimuang, said […]
YALA, Dec 27 – One Thai Army soldier in a teacher protection unit was killed and another was wounded in a bomb ambush this morning in the southern border province of Yala. Sergeant Major 1st Class Pradit Saranatri, head of the teacher protection unit, led his motorcycle-mounted team of six men as security for teachers […]
SONGKHLA, Dec 26 — Authorities in this provincial seat have evacuated seaside residents in Ranot district as high waves continue pounding the shore, and the governor meets today to evaluate the situation and decide whether to announce six districts along the shoreline as disaster areas. Governor Kritsada Boonrach inspected a village in Khlong Dan sub-district […]
CHUMPHON, Dec 25 – High waves hit hundreds of houses in southern provinces with about ten tourists stranded on an island in Chumphon. Waves estimated at nearly four-metre struck the southern provinces of Chumpon and Surat Thani, prompting residents to evacuate. Preecha Suweeranuwat, a sub-district head in Chumpon’s Lang Suan district mobilized volunteers to help […]
CHUMPHON, Dec 25 – Ten tourists were stranded on Phithak island as four-metre high waves struck six districts of Chumphon province on Sunday. Uthai Kunthawong, acting chief of Chumphon’s mitigation and disaster prevention office, said six districts –Pathiu, Muang Chunphon, Saw, Thung Tako, Lang Suan and Lamae, were directly hit by the high waves. Source: […]
NARATHIWAT, Dec 24 – A former Tambon Administrative Organisation (TAO) deputy chief in Rangae district was shot dead on Saturday while visiting his mother. The victim identified as Mr Halibaba Salae, 38, was conversing with his mother in front of her home. A pick-up truck pulled up across the street, and two gunmen in the […]
