BANGKOK, Dec 31 – Ninety-four people were killed in road accidents throughout Thailand during the first two days of the “seven high-risk days of the New Year’s holidays” from December 29 – January 4, according to the Road Safety Centre. There were a total of 955 road accidents with 1,051 injuries reported on December 29 […]
Police arrested a suspended police officer for allegedly shooting and wounding many motorists on Ratchadapisek Road on December 23. Police Lance Corporal Thirayu Phetmeekha, 28, was nabbed in his home town in Songkhla province, the media were told yesterday. He has allegedly confessed that he got drunk after attending a wedding party in Bangkok’s Huai […]
An overweight foreign man of unknown nationality, drank vodka getting massively drunk. Fell off the chair and died. Pattaya police assumes that the man succumbed to acute alcohol poisoning combined organ failure or congenital disease. Pattaya, December 27, 2011[PDN]; Pol. Lt. Col. Attaros Krongrat, Pattaya police station, Chonburi province, was notified about a fat foreigner […]
In a tragic incident unrelated to the insurgency, a border patrol policeman opened fire on some of his colleagues on Monday night in southern Phatthalung province, killing six and seriously wounding another, before taking his own life. The shooting occurred about 10.30pm behind the 434th Border Patrol Police Company headquarters in tambon Khuan Ma Phrao, […]
BANGKOK, Dec 26 – Two Lampang men died of exposure due to the cold wave covering the northern province of Lampang, the Ministry of Public Health’s Bureau of Epidemiology reported Monday. Director Passakorn Akrasewi said that the two cold-related deaths were identified as a man, aged 52, with emphysema and a man, aged 53, who […]
Two senior flood officials based in Loei, who were assigned to help with relief operations in Bangkok’s Sai Mai area, were shot dead Saturday – allegedly by their drunk driver. Thammanop Akkharaphin was found shot dead in Wat Nong Yai, where a Loeibased company of civilian defence volunteers was camped, while Suphat Phoothronsri, who was […]
“Aek” a known Pattaya locksmith got drunk. Drove his pickup and was allegedly “cut” by a foreigner on a motorbike. “Aek” pulled his BB gun and threatened the foreigner. Pattaya, November 21, 2011[PDN]; Pol. Capt. Somchai Chaikananukul, Pattaya police was notified about a road-rage case involving a foreigner riding a motorbike and swerving in front […]
A drunk Nissan Cefiro driver displays the power of his modified car. Loses control, collides into multiple parked vehicles. Two women and the intoxicated driver severely injured. Pattaya, November 14, 2011 [PDN]; Pol. Lt. Col. Phumpat Narmputthar, Pattaya police station was notified about an accident involving a sedan crashing into parked motorbikes and pick ups […]
