Three female Myanmar migrant workers and a Thai driver were seriously injured in a van crash on Phetkasem highway in Bang Saphan district of Prachuap Khiri Khan before dawn on Thursday (April 5). The 12 workers chartered the commercial van from Pha-ngan island in Surat Thani back home in Myanmar to celebrate Songkran festival via […]
A 35-year-old resident of Singha Nakorn district of Songkhla province was arrested on Tuesday (Apr 3) for arms trafficking after two submachine guns and 4,500 rounds of ammunition were found hidden in his pickup truck. Chakkaphan Nutkong was waved down for search at a security checkpoint on Satun-Rattapbum road in Kuan Kalong district of Satun […]
Three men were killed and another injured after their car plunged off a bridge and into a canal in Surat Thani’s Ban Nasan district as they were headed home from a wedding ceremony early on Monday. Police were alerted to the accident at 5.30am at the Klong Preng Bridge in Moo 2 village in Tambon […]
SONGKHLA: A fire broke out on Sunday outside a seafood processing factory in Hat Yai district, destroying hundreds of plastic crates, police said. The fire started around noon outside the factory belonging to Hat Yai Sahakij Khonsong Company in Ban Phru Municipality, sending billows of black smoke into the sky. The crates were used to […]
Gunman opened fire at a train in Narathiwat’s Cho Airong district Saturday evening (March 31), but no passengers were hurt. At about 5.30 pm, the Surat Thani-Su-ngai Kolok train had just left Cho Airong district to a distance about 500 metres from the station when a burst of gunshots was heard. Full story: thaipbs.or.th By […]
A husband and wife were shot dead in their home in Kong Ra district of Phatthalung province and a neighbour was injured in what police suspected was a personal conflict. The murder of the couple, Arong Srisongkram and Payao Somkeowan, was reported to Kong Ra police by their 15-year-old daughter last night. Full story: thaipbs.or.th […]
An Australian tourist is in a critical condition after being involved in a suspected hit and run on Koh Samui. B. F., 36, was on the island to attend a friend’s wedding when he was hit by a car while riding a motorcycle at around 4am on 28th March. “It appears that way. He was […]
A fire broke out early Saturday morning (March 31) at a three-storey shophouse restaurant in downtown Sungai Kolok district of Narathiwat in the Deep South, causing severe damage to property but no one was injured. The fire happened on the second storey of the row shophouse restaurant “Bak Mui” which is adjacent to the district’s […]
