A Malaysian tourist and her five-year-old daughter have drowned after a long-tailed boat, in which her family of three were travelling, capsized in the seas off the Mueang district of the southern province of Krabi yesterday (Wednesday). The family were on a sea tour, off Nong Thale sub-district, without life jackets. Only the skipper was […]
Two insurgents on a motorbike threw a pipe bomb at a security checkpoint and injured one ranger volunteer on Tuesday, January 24th. The two insurgents struck at about 8 PM. The two unidentified men arrived on a motorbike at a checkpoint on Highway 42 Pattani-Yala in the Tanyong Chung-nga sub-district of Yaring district in Thailand’s […]
SONGKHLA: A woman passenger died and a newly wed couple were injured when their pickup was hit by an express train at a railway crossing in Chana district on Sunday. The accident occurred about noon on the railway crossing at Moo 1 village in tambon Paching, about 5 kilometres from Chana railway station. There is […]
SURAT THANI: The southern tourist province will welcome its first international chartered flight since the pandemic, which will land with about 180 visitors from Taiwan. Surat Thani governor Wichawut Jinto said on Sunday that the fully booked Thai Lion Air flight SL-7391 from Taiwan would arrive at Surat Thani airport on Monday evening. Full story: […]
PHATTHALUNG: Twenty-nine illegal migrants from Myanmar crammed into a pickup truck were arrested after the vehicle overturned on a southbound road in Muang district on Wednesday morning. The modified pickup with a tarpaulin covering its bed overturned after its left rear tyre burst on Phetkasem Road along the Phatthalung-Hat Yai route in tambon Tha Khae […]
Rescue teams recovered five out of six bodies found on Wednesday in the Mae Klong River, bringing the confirmed death toll in the oil tanker fire and explosion to eight. One is still missing. Dozens of rescue workers, including divers equipped with underwater scanners, and jet skiers resumed the search within a 100-metre radius of […]
SAMUT SONGKHRAM, Jan 17 (TNA) – An oil tanker exploded on Tuesday at a dockyard in Samut Songkhram province, killing one person and injuring 16 others. The tanker caught fire after explosions, prompting fire fighters to rush to the scene to control the blaze. Samut Songkhram governor confirmed that the tanker Smooth Sea 22 exploded […]
The navy apologised for an incident that injured eight people – mostly children – when a helicopter flew above marquee tents, causing them to collapse onto a crowd in Chanthaburi province on Saturday. The incident happened during a National Children’s Day event in the Tha Chang municipality in Muang district on Saturday morning. A navy […]
