PATTANI, Oct 14 – An employee of the Pattani branch office of the Government Savings Bank was gunned down in this southern province on Thursday. Pornsak Thongseng was shot in the torso by a gunman on a motorcycle as he drove home from the bank in Khok Pho district. He died en route to hospital. […]
Fifteen Pakistanis suspected of collecting funds earmarked for use by terrorist organisations in their homeland have been arrested in Thailand, police said on Wednesday. Police were tipped off to the activity by a bank in the southern Yala province after the suspects tried to wire funds to a person in Pakistan whose name was on […]
PATTANI, Oct 14 – One villager was killed and three others including 14-year-old girl were wounded in a shooting attack in the southern province of Pattani on Wednesday night. Police inspected a rental house in Saiburi district to gather evidence and question witnesses after two men on a motorcycle fired on the victims as they […]
A waitress was killed and her husband seriously injured when a landslide hit a small resort in Trat’s Koh Chang early yesterday. Naree Khok died in the disaster while her husband Rin was pinned under debris and waited in pain for more than 10 hours before being rescued, due to limited equipment. The couple worked […]
YALA, Oct 11 – A soldier on Monday was shot dead by two presumed muslim insurgents en route to his post in strife-torn Yala’s provincial seat, according to police. Sgt-Maj Banjob Injan, 53, was gunned down while riding his motorcycle on his way to work in Pattani’s Yarang district. The victim was shot in his […]
Trat – A mudslide on tourist-destination Koh Chang killed a Cambodian worker and injured another Monday morning. Officials said the mudslide hit Rock Sand Beach Resort at the White Sand Beach. The mudslide hit four bungalows of the resort. A bungalow collapsed on a Cambodian worker, severely injuring him while another worker was buried by […]
Pattani, Thailand – Suspected separatist militants killed one soldier and three civilians in a series of attacks in Thailand’s troubled deep south, security officials said Wednesday. Troops were searching a house on Wednesday afternoon in Sri Sakon district of Narathiwat province, 800 kilometres south of Bangkok, when a bomb went off, killing one soldier instantly […]
The government should abandon its military approach and persue three-step peaceful means to quell violence in the three southernmost provinces, a Muslim leader said on Tuesday. “The social strife can not be resolved by the military,” Kariya Kijjarak said in his capacity as confederation chairman of the 15 Central Islamic Committees representing the South. Kariya […]
