The Thai army’s 350 million baht surveillance airship made an emergency landing in Pattani yesterday due to technical problems with the aircraft’s propellers. The accident occurred shortly after the controversial airship left the airport of the 15th Infantry Division in Pattani’s Nong Chik district on a patrol mission around 11am yesterday. Read more: Bangkok Post
The unrest in Thailand’s deep South has orphaned 4,455 children and widowed up to 2,295 women during the past eight years. The statistics have been compiled since 2004. Pattani has seen the highest number of or 1,691 orphaned children. Coming second was Narathiwat with 1,586 orphans. Yala came third with 1,027 orphaned victims. There have […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 11 – No deaths have been reported in a prison riot here Thursday morning when soldiers and police were called in to quell the violence, Narathiwat Gov Thanon Vejjakornkanon said today. The Narathiwat governor, Songkhla central prison chief Udom Khuinara and Pol Col Nanthadej Yoinuan, deputy commander of the Narathiwat Provincial Police explained […]
PATTANI, Aug 9 – One man was killed Tuesday, and two others were wounded in three roadside shootings in the violence-plagued Thai southern province of Pattani, according to local police. In Yaring district, Yuso Waekeuji was shot to death while riding a motorcycle from the provincial seat to his home in Sadawa subdistrict. The 52-year-old […]
Pattani – A Buddhist teacher was severely injured in a drive-by shooting in Thailand’s southern border Pattani province Tuesday. Somboon Jongderm, 57, a teacher of and an assistsant director of Royal Thai Army Uthit Don Yang School, was attacked at 12:30 pm while he was leaving his school in Tambon Bothong of Nongchik district. Police […]
YALA, Aug 8 — Two border patrol police officers were wounded in a bombing at a 7-Eleven convenience store near the Southern Border Provinces Police Command Centre in Thailand’s southernmost province of Yala. The two injured police, identified as Pol Sen Sgt-Maj Somwong Niraro and Pol Sen Sgt-Maj Nipatcharaporn Kosuma, were going to work at […]
Thai and Malaysian police seized large quantities of drugs and arrested a number of drug suspects in coordinated drug suppression operations on Saturday, national police chief Wichean Potephosree said at a press conference on Sunday. The conference was also attended by Pol Lt-Gen Vorapong Chiewpreecha, an assistant police chief, Pol Lt-Col Adithep Panjamanont, chief of […]
PATTANI, Aug 5 – Three men were shot dead, while another survived a gun attack while riding motorcycles in Kapho district of restive Pattani, according to local police. Art-harn Dokmaingern and Manus Sirimaha were struck in their heads and torsos. Their bodies were found lying near their motorcycle, according to Pol Col Kongart Suwankam of […]
