SONGKHLA, May 10 – An unknown number of gunmen fired at a house in Songkhla, wounding two persons on Monday night. A nine-year-old boy, the homeowner’s son, was shot in the leg and a neighbour was shot in the hip. Read more: MCOTt
BANGKOK, 9 May 2011 (NNT) – Deputy Prime Minister in charge of security affairs Suthep Thaugsuban has insisted on using the existing guideline in dealing with the southern unrest. The deputy prime minister admitted that the southern insurgency is persistent, and unrest perpetrators are trying to ambush and hurt local people in an effort to […]
PATTANI, May 7 — Two separate bomb attacks in the southern provinces of Pattani and Yala have killed six security officials and wounded 16 others. The first explosion occurred near a local football pitch in Kapho district, Pattani while 17 policemen were arriving to play a football match with villagers. The bomb killed three policemen […]
Pattani – Two roadside bombs exploded Saturday in Thailand’s violence-wracked south killing two paramilitary soldiers, and wounding nine other rangers, officials said. Suspected militant separatists detonated the roadside bombs at separate times in Ramia district of Yala province, Yala Governor Krissida Boonrad told the German press agency, dpa. Read more: Monsters and Critics
YALA, April 27 – One villager was shot dead in insurgency-impacted Yala province Wednesday morning, while five Army personnel were wounded in a bombing ambush in nearby Narathiwat. The first incident occurred early morning in a rubber plantation in Yala’s Bannang Sata district where the victim identified as Sombat Pandam, 32, was shot dead as […]
ํYALA, 22 April 2011 (NNT) – Immigration Department Deputy Police Major General M.L. Pansak Kasemsant has welcomed a new computer system called P.BIG, which enhances the identification process and is linked to the Immigration Offices nationwide. It is said to boost security over the Thai-Malaysian border in Yala province. The P.BIG has been introduced in […]
More than 2,000 people in Thailand were infected with malaria in the past three months, the Public Health Ministry said Thursday. Malaria remains a threat in the deep South, especially Yala province, where the number of malaria cases has increased from 30 a year to 3,000 annually over the past several years because of the […]
PATTANI, April 19 – Two Thai army rangers and three local civilians were killed in an attack at an army ranger base in Pattani. Presumed muslim insurgents fired M79 grenades at the army base in Pattani’s Nong Chik district on Monday night. Read more: MCOT
