BANGKOK, April 4 – National Police Chief Pol Gen Prewpan Dhamapong confirmed on Wednesday that police have arrested two suspects in last weekend’s Hat Yai hotel bombing, even as security measures are being stepped up at main tourist attractions in Bangkok and the provinces to prevent any possible violent incident during the holiday. Gen Prewpan […]
SONGKHLA, April 3 – Songkhla police have broadcast closed circuit television coverage showing two suspects in the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel car bombing. The two suspects appeared in CCTV footage recorded by cameras in the hotel’s basement car park. The two men wore jeans and black jackets with caps to hide their faces. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, 3 April 2012 (NNT) – Airports of Thailand Plc (AOT) has tightened security at 6 airports nationwide following a series of bomb blasts in Songkhla and Yala provinces. AOT President Flying Officer Anirut Thanomkulbutra said that in light of the three bombings in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district and Yala province, security has been increased […]
SONGKHLA, 2 April 2012 (NNT) – Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism and Sports has instructed relevant agencies to provide urgent assistance to tourists following the explosion at the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel, while the Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) stands firm that it will hold the Midnight Songkran celebration as previously planned. […]
Security agencies believe insurgents behind the vehicle bomb attacks in Yala over the weekend belong to a group close to an insurgent leader behind the Hat Yai airport bomb attack in 2005. The security agencies have also learned the identity of an insurgent behind the bomb attack at the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in Hat […]
HAT YAI, April 2 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on Monday inspected the scene of the weekend’s devastating car bombing at the Lee Gardens Plaza Hotel in Songkhla’s Hat Yai commercial district and ordered deployment of the Arintarat police commando unit to the area. Giving words of encouragement to boost the morale of Hat […]
Car bomb attacks in Yala and Hat Yai district in Songkhla have badly affected tourism and local businesses, and a quick recovery is important in salvaging plunging visitor confidence in Thailand, hoteliers and business operators said yesterday. A large number of tourists from Malaysia and Singapore who remain in Thailand have been relocated to other […]
BANGKOK, April 1 – Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yuthasak Sasiprapa said on Sunday that Saturday’s car bombs in Yala and Hat Yai might be the work of the same group of insurgents aiming to discredit and pressure the government. Fourteen people were killed and more than 500 were injured in a string of mid-day car […]
