Two people were killed and four wounded in three separate gun attacks, believed to be by insurgents, in Pattani province from late Sunday night to Monday morning, police reported. About 10pm on Sunday an assistant village chief was attacked by an unknown number of gunmen hiding on the roadside near Ban Khao Tum in Yarang […]
Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Anupong Paochinda Tuesday expressed confidence that the new Southern Border Province Administrative Centre will contribute to the efforts of the authorities to end violence in the deep South. The Army chief welcomed the House’s passage of the Southern Border Province Administrative Centre Bill last week. The bill will remove he agency from […]
(RTTNews) – Thailand also is joining the international forces patrolling the dangerous waters of the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean infested with Somali piracy. A 371-member Thai naval fleet will begin its 98-day-long anti-piracy mission in the waters off Somalia in September, reports said. Thai government spokesman Supachai Jaisamut said the Cabinet on Monday […]
Islamic insurgents have shot three people in the Yala region of Thailand Saturday. This is the first fatal attack in Thailand since the start of the holy Islamic festival, Ramadan. The first victim, a police officer, was killed after a drive-by shooting as he drove his motorcycle in Pattani. The police report he died in […]
Yala – A Buddhist married couple were killed on their way to a rubber plantation here early Saturday. The couple were identified as Sakhon Meethong, 42, and his wife, Sompit Meethong, 41. Police said the two were rubber tappers for hire. The Nation
NARATHIWAT, Aug 12 – Three police officers were seriously injured in a bombing incidents early Thursday in the insurgency-plagued province of Narathiwat’s Rangae district. Pol Lt-Col Somchai Muangmin of Ranage Police Station, Pol Sub-Lt Manus Anukul and Pol Cpl Pichet Mipvaree were wounded when their four-door compact pickup truck passed between a petrol station and […]
Armed soldiers guard the road leading to Malatee Porsotee’s village school in southern Thailand while security volunteers with rifles keep watch over the classrooms. Students gather in the morning sunshine to sing the national anthem, raise the Thai flag and take daily exercise on a grassy yard surrounded by flowering bougainvillea, as roosters peck in […]
A man has been stabbed to death and partially decapitated in Thailand’s insurgency-wracked deep south, police said on Monday. The body of the unidentified victim, believed to be in his early 20s, was found in a rubber plantation in Narathiwat province, near the border with Malaysia. The Sydney Morning Herald
