Narathiwat and Pattani were bracing early today for a possible tsunami resulting from yesterday’s huge earthquake off Japan, and Songkhla remains at risk, a Meteorological Department official said. The department’s provincial chief in Narathiwat, Manee Uttharak, said waves could reach the coast of Narathiwat by about 4.56am, reaching a height of 4 metres a kilometre […]
Her Majesty Queen Sirikit has graciously taken a monk and novice who were seriously injured in a gun attack by insurgents in Pattani on Saturday under her patronage. Buddhism Office of Pattani director Thirachit Bovornnanthiwat said Thursday that Phra Suchart Inthankaew, 36, who is being treated at Songkhla Nakarin Hospital in Hat Yai, was stable […]
The Narathiwat provincial police chief has been moved to an inactive post following a string of bomb blasts in the southern province, including Monday’s car bomb attack on a police apartment block in Si Sakhon district. Chaitat Inthanujit has been transferred to assist at the police operational centre in Yala. The transfer order took effect […]
A 14-month-old baby girl has succumbed to trauma from a gunshot wound during a gunfire attack in Pattani on Monday by insurgents targeting her grandfather, who has also died. Bunthisa Malayanont died on Monday evening after two-hour surgery to repair bullet wounds to her left shoulder and lung. She died in the arms of her […]
The Sangkha Council of Pattani province has decided that Buddhist monks in three high-risk districts should stop making their morning alms collection for one month, following the slaying of a monk and wounding of two others in Khok Pho district early this month. Thirachit Bovornnanthiwat, chief of the Buddhism Office of Pattani, said the three […]
Narathiwat – Five policemen and two civilians were injured Monday when insurgents threw a grenade at a grocery shop and detonated a car bomb to ambush a team officers rushing to first explosion scene. The car bomb attack damaged 18 vehicle and the ground floor of a 4-storey police apartment building in Si Sa Khon […]
BANGKOK, 7 March 2011 (NNT) – Army Chief General Prayut Chan-O-Cha has indicated that monks and teachers are increasingly becoming major targets of unrest perpetrators in the southernmost provinces. General Prayut stated that security officers have been more proactive in their operations recently, resulting in the arrest of many key unrest instigators; the latter, therefore, […]
A 64-year-old man was killed and four others badly wounded when masked insurgents sprayed bullets at them in Pattani province on Sunday, a day after a monk was killed and two others injured in a drive by attack. Sunday’s attack took place at about 7am on YarangYabi Road in Yarang district, which was crowded with […]
