NARATHIWAT, Sept 4 – One soldier was wounded in a bombing in Takbai district Sunday afternoon while the national police chief was visiting local policemen in this southern province. A bomb, weighing around five kilogrammes was hidden in an iron box and triggered by a mobile phone when Sergeant Major 1st class Veera Siriwongkhan led […]
BANGKOK, Sept 1 – A Malaysian man and two suspected drug gang members were detained with 45 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as “ice,” in their possession in the southern province of Songkhla, Thai police said Thursday. Mhages Paran Pathu together with two drug gang members and two unidentified Thai women were arrested in […]
Police in Thailand’s violent south say suspected Muslim militants killed six people and wounded another Friday in coordinated attacks. Authorities said suspected insurgents detonated a bomb buried in a road, as a truck carrying six defense volunteers drove to the scene of an earlier shooting at a rubber plantation. Five of the volunteers were killed […]
Thai Police have arrested a Taiwanese call center gang in Hua Hin. Immigration police cooperated with Hua Hin police officers and obtained a search warrant for a house in Hua Hin District of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. Officers found a group of Taiwanese and Chinese nationals who had set up the house as a call […]
YALA, Aug 25 – A local official and his three-year-old daughter were killed in Yala while a defence volunteer was shot dead at an attack at a school in rural Songkhla on Wednesday night. At least 30 attackers fired at the home of Mani Sulaiman Sengmasu, a member of the Talowae sub-district administration organisation in […]
TRANG, Aug 25 – Thirty-four persons of Thailand’s Sakai ethnic minority in this southern province received their first official government identification cards, according to Trang Governor Maitri Intusut. The governor was present at this special occasion for the Sakai in Palian district. The Sakai, headed by Sang Sri Palian, have lived in this area for […]
BANGKOK, Aug 24 – Thai Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday conceded that the security and protection measures for local residents in the three insurgency-plagued southern border provinces are still not fully effective but pledged that the army has addressed the violence by strictly adhering to the rule of law. The army chief said […]
Insurgent attacks in the Thailand’s southernmost border provinces overnight and on Tuesday morning killed a policeman and a para-military ranger, and injured civilians, a monk and soldiers. Nine soldiers, one monk and three civilians were wounded by a bomb explosion on Pak Nam road in Pattani’s Muang district on Tuesday morning, police said. The attack […]
