The 16 year old girl blamed for the fatal tollway accident on Monday has become so stressed out that she asked why she did not die, her mother said yesterday. “Why don’t they take my life? Why don’t I just die?” the girl was quoted as saying. The girl is being treated for injuries at […]
Police say a 16 year old girl, a minor, was driving the sedan that collided with a passenger van in a horror road accident on an elevated tollway section of the Vibhavadi Rangsit highway on Monday night, killing eight people and injuring six others. They said persons of that age were not entitled to a […]
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 […]
Three youngsters were arrested in Bangkok’s Bang Khun Thien district for allegedly kidnapping a 14-year-old girl, brutally torturing her, and kicking her off the Memorial Bridge (Saphan Phut) to die, police said yesterday. Police, accompanied by women’s right advocate Pavena Hongsakul, arrested Nattapol Jarejindarat, 25; Ploy (not her real name), 17; and Golf (not his […]
Pattani, Thailand – Suspected muslim separatist insurgents dressed in police uniforms shot and killed five people in Thailand’s restive, muslim-majority South, police said Wednesday. The attackers drove up to a spot where farmers were selling fruit Tuesday night and opened fire on the crowd with automatic weapons, said Colonel Amnuay Dee with the Saiburi police […]
BANGKOK, Sept 24 — Another in a series of explosions jarred homeward bound Bangkok commuters late Friday afternoon, the first to take place during the rush hour, adding to the sense of unease that the blasts that have jarred the Thai capital recently. Three passersby were injured — two schoolgirls and an older man –by […]
The number of Thai and Nigerian women exploited for sexual purposes in Sweden has increased, according to a police report on human trafficking. The number of reports involving the exploitation of mentally handicapped women has also increased, according to a report on human trafficking from Sweden’s National Police Board (Rikspolisstyrelsen) released on Tuesday. “Alarming,” Kajsa […]
AN AUSTRALIAN organisation comprising ex-police and special forces soldiers has rescued four child sex workers from an illegal brothel near the Thailand-Cambodia border. The team of volunteer operatives from The Grey Man, a Brisbane-based charity, staged the successful operation at a brothel in the Thailand town of Aranyaprathet, 1km from the Cambodian border, on Saturday. […]
