NARATHIWAT, Aug 11 – No deaths have been reported in a prison riot here Thursday morning when soldiers and police were called in to quell the violence, Narathiwat Gov Thanon Vejjakornkanon said today. The Narathiwat governor, Songkhla central prison chief Udom Khuinara and Pol Col Nanthadej Yoinuan, deputy commander of the Narathiwat Provincial Police explained […]
A Pattaya prison inmate was rushed to hospital on Monday Night in a serious condition after allegedly swallowing a condom full of class 1 drugs which is thought to have split open in his stomach. Prison guards at the Pattaya Remand Prison had earlier taken Khun Daipop aged 27 to Hospital suffering from severe abdominal […]
THAILAND – Six districts in the northern province of Nan, including the town of the same name, were declared flood disaster zones yesterday, while 50 schools were temporarily closed and the Nan Prison ordered some of its 100 inmates moved to other facilities. Five districts in the western province of Tak were also declared disaster […]
The chief coordinator of the Network of Youth Organistions in the Southernmost Provinces, Artef Sohko, urged the authorities to investigate the allegations that certain officials had disrespected the Quran, Islamic holy book, by tossing it on the floor, thus, ignited the Saturday riot that left 20 police and five defense volunteers injured. Speaking to The […]
A total of 20 police officers and 5 defence volunteers were injured when inmates at Narathiwat provincial prison hurled wood sticks and stones at them on Saturday morning, reports said. The 150-men joint police, military and civil forces, led by Narathiwat deputy governor Dejrath Simsiri, were searching for narcotics at the first and second floors […]
A major drug distribution network operating in Pattaya and organized from within the confines of a prison located in the North-East of Thailand has been shut-down by Na-Jomtien Police. On Friday, Police Colonel Gitipong, the Chief of Na-Jomtien Police held a press conference at the station to announce the arrest of three drug dealing suspects […]
A man was allegedly beaten inside the Pattaya Police cells in the early hours of Thursday Morning and in the afternoon he was found dead. The incident began at 1.30am and was caught on security cameras fitted inside the cells, located on the second floor of Pattaya Police Station. The pictures showed a group of […]
RATCHABURI : Two inmates were shot dead as riot police quelled an uprising by more than 100 prisoners at Ratchaburi Central Prison. More than 100 riot control police were called in about 5.30pm yesterday after a group of prisoners armed with knives, rocks and bottles attacked guards at the prison after authorities discovered cuts had […]
