Police in Satun were notified from a 191 emergency call on Thursday (March 30th) about the incident. High tides force temporary closures of southern tourist islands Ms. C. M. T. D., 29, a French national, was lost near a viewpoint on the Adang Island in the Tarutao National Park. A search was launched until night […]
A boat crewman was found dead while another crew member is still missing. Three crew members have been rescued after a fishing boat collided with an oil tanker near Samui Island. The Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Center Region 2 told the Phuket Express that a fishing boat with five crew collided with an oil tanker […]
PHETCHABURI, March 23 (TNA) – The police shot dead a gunman after a 15-hour standoff at a housing estate in Phetchaburi. The shooting started Wednesday afternoon. The gunman killed three people – his neighbours and a motorcycle delivery driver. Three others were injured. One of them was a local official, who rushed to the scene […]
Search and rescue teams resumed their search today (Wednesday) for one crew member and the decapitated body of another, after their trawler collided with an oil tanker in the Gulf of Thailand, about 35kms from the Lang Suan estuary in Thailand’s southern province of Chumphon yesterday. The force of the collision threw five of the […]
A 34-year-old Russian man was arrested on Pha-Ngan Island in Surat Thani for 993 days of overstaying his legal visa conditions. Immigration officers told the Phuket Express that recently they have arrested a Russian national, 34, (Name was withheld). He was arrested at a resort on the island. Full story: tpnnational.com By Goongnang Suksawat TPNNational
Three suspected insurgents were shot dead by Thai security forces at a jungle hideout in the Si Sakhon district of the southern province of Narathiwat on Monday. A security force patrol stumbled upon a suspected insurgent jungle hideout in Ban Ta Hong of Choeng Khiri sub-district and laid siege to it, while ordering those inside […]
he Hat Nopparat Thani Mu-Ko Phi Phi National Park officials told the Phuket Express that over the past weekend they were notified by a speedboat operator that a speedboat had capsized near the Mah Island in Krabi. The speedboat was travelling from Lanta Island in Krabi and heading to Phuket. There were three tourists and […]
Emergency responders was notified that a tourist was unconscious on Friday (March 17th) at the Tiger Cave in Mueang Krabi district. Advance emergency responders and a doctor took more than one hour to ascend the 1,200 step ladder to the cave almost near the top of the hill. They found a 70-year-old Australian tourist who […]
