YALA: Three policemen were injured, one seriously, when a bomb exploded on a road in Raman district, peppering their patrol pickup with shrapnel, on Monday morning. Polie said the attack occurred about 10.20am as the pickup was passing Tano Puye, or Moo 3 village, in tambon Kae Ro. The bomb was buried on the roadside […]
PATTANI: A former village chief was gunned down while returning from a local mosque in Kapho district on Friday night. The attack occurred in front of a kubo, a Muslim cemetery, in Wang Phla village of tambon Pong Hoi, said Pol Capt Phanakorn Intha, a duty officer at Kapho police station, who was reported at […]
Two workers were killed and three others sustained serious burns when a chemical storage tank exploded at a factory in Thailand’s eastern province of Rayong on Tuesday afternoon. The Map Ta Phut Tank Terminal Company said in a statement today (Wednesday) that the explosion at about 3pm yesterday, as workers from Qualitech Engineering and Construction […]
More than 1,000 prisoners in the Zone 6 maximum security sector of the prison in Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat have been infected with COVID-19, 396 of whom have developed symptoms. Prison officials told Thai PBS that they have no idea how the infections started, but said that only officials are allowed into […]
A student who developed blood clots after getting her second Covid-19 vaccine shot and her left leg was amputated has since died of a haemorrhagic stroke after brain surgery. Ketsiree Kongkaew, 20, a student at Phangnga Community College, died on Monday morning at Songklanagarind Hospital, Thai media reported on Tuesday. Full story: Bangkok Post BANGKOK […]
SURAT THANI: Immigration police on Monday arrested a British man on Koh Samui island and charged him with illegal possession and use of marijuana. Pol Col Suparerk Phankosol, the provincial immigration police chief, said P. M. K., 32, was arrested on Monday at his home, house 76/99 in Moo 5 village of tambon Bo Phut. […]
The southern region of Thailand has become an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rapid increase in the numbers of cases and deaths in recent days. According to Thailand’s Center for COVID-19 Situation Management (CCSA), the southern towns of Yala, Pattani Songkhla and Narathiwat recorded 2,303 new infections the day before, more than the […]
The Muang district of Thailand’s southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat has fallen quiet, with about half of the shops shuttered, light traffic and fewer people in public venues, after the province was designated as a “maximum control and restrictive” or “dark red” zone by the Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration, due to a recent […]
