NARATHIWAT, Sept 26 – Fire badly damaged two security installations by suspected arsons in Narathiwat’s Bacho district but no casualties were reported, according to local police. Fires broke out at a police special operations unit and an army post at about 9pm Sunday, according to Pol Col Pakdee Prechachon, superintendent of Bacho police station. Read […]
PATTANI, 25 September 2011 (NNT) – Security Authorities in Pattani Province have stepped up security measures especially at important landmarks, and community zones after they received leads on a possible bombing in the area. Various checkpoints have been set-up on major roads leading to the Mueang District, to search all incoming vehicles. Leads have indicated […]
The death toll in the series of three bomb attacks that rocked Thailand’s Narathiwat Sungai Kolok district on September 16 has risen to six after a journalist succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Meanwhile, soldiers yesterday interrogated two suspects in a separate bomb attack on Friday at a school in the same province. Read more: The […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 24 – Two suspects were arrested and questioned on Saturday as to whether they were involved with last Friday’s planned sequential series of bombing in this restive south province which claimed six lives, including four Malaysian tourists, while in a separate incident, one local resident was shot this morning by presumed insurgents. Lt […]
A bomb went off Friday at a Narathiwat school, wounding a soldier guarding it and causing panic to schoolchidren. The five-kg explosive was planted under the roof of an unused building in Pracha Bamrung school in RaNgae district, and was detonated through mobile phone signals when a six-man patrol went in to take a rest. […]
PATTANI, Sept 22 — A male medical worker, a practicing midwife, was shot by unknown assailants using M16 assault rifles this afternoon as he drove his motorcycle from a field assignment back to his office, a hospital in this insurgency-impacted province. Seriously wounded, he was helped by local residents and made it to his own […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 22 – Thai police have detained one suspect in last week’s Narathiwat’s bombings, and are seeking arrest warrants for three additional suspects. Surveillance cameras in Sungai Kolok municipality recorded images of a motorcycle with an implanted bomb in front of a shop, the first explosion site. Read more: MCOT
A Thai Navy coastal patrol vessel rescued an Italian man and a South African man after their yacht sank in the rough sea off Satun Monday morning. The two tourists suffered minor injuries. They were identified as Jionata Bellkumba, 34, from Italy and Luk Loxyer, 30, from South Africa. The Third Naval Forces received a […]
