PHRAE – A volunteer firefighter has been discovered dead in Wang Chin district of Phrae province after going missing while battling a forest fire, marking the second such fatality in northern Thailand within a single week. The body of Decha Tathika was found near his cashew plantation close to a community forest, following an extensive […]
At 11:00 PM on June 3rd, 2024, Thai highway police officers received an anonymous tip about coaches transporting a large number of illegal immigrants from Chiang Rai to Bangkok. Police to delay legal proceeding against illegal immigrants in Thailand In response to the report, Thai highway police, Phrae immigration officers, and relevant agencies were dispatched […]
A woman, who was relying on GPS to navigate the way to visit a friend in Phrae province on Sunday, found her car stuck on a small pedestrian suspension bridge over a river. Truck driver led by GPS into narrow soi breaks power cable, house fence She narrowly escaped tragedy, as the wooden bridge’s planks […]
PHRAE: Forest runoff in this northern province caused the derailment of a train early on Saturday morning, resulting in minor injuries. Bomb causes freight train to derail in Songkhla province At 5.48am, authorities reported that Special Express Train 13, en route from Bangkok to Chiang Mai, derailed as it passed through Phrae. Full story: Bangkok […]
A six-year-old girl was killed when a large weeping fig (Ficus benjamina) tree fell onto the family home in Phrae province during summer storms, which also struck Phetchabun and Chiang Rai provinces last night, causing blackouts and uprooting trees. Heavy Storms Displace More Than a Thousand Families in Northeast Thailand In the Tao Pun sub-district […]
A former municipal councillor sentenced to death in absentia for the murder of a wealthy Dutchman, in collusion with the victim’s wife and brother, has been arrested in Phrae province after 13 years on the run. Crime Suppression Division police arrested Anupong Suthani, 54, in tambon Wang Thong of Muang district of the northern province […]
PHRAE: A man lost his right foot when he stepped on a land mine while cutting bamboo in a forest in Den Chai district on Monday morning. Pol Lt Col Soranakom Kukkong, of Den Chai police station, said the incident occurred at about 8am in a community forest near Ban Huay Kut in tambon Den […]
An elderly Englishman and his Thai wife who were reported to have gone missing mysteriously from their home in Muang district of the northern province of Phrae on September 19 have been found dead buried in their own fruit orchard in the district. Using a backhoe to dig into a spot in the orchard owned […]
