BANGKOK, Feb 9 – Thai authorities have arrested drug trafficking suspects in the South with methamphetamine pills and heroin worth more than Bt40 million. The five suspects are from the “Mayakee” syndicate that eerlier hid Bt 30 million in pipes in a Narathiwat rubber plantation in 2007. Read more: MCOT
NARATHIWAT, Dec 19 – At least three more persons have drowned, some 80 schools are closed indefinitely and a large agricultural areas have been destroyed as heavy rains and severe flooding continue in Thailand’s deep southern provinces, officials said today. Heavy flooding is still occurring in all 13 districts of Narathiwat province, areas which have […]
Insurgents detonated a roadside homemade bomb on a village road in Narathiwat’s Ruesoh district Wednesday, injuring three troops. Police said the explosion occurred at 11:40 am. Insurgents detonated the bomb when four troops on two motorcycles were passing by on their routine patrol. The troops were slightly injured. News source: The Nation
Violence continued in three deep southern provinces with separate insurgency attacks killing three and injuring one. A 52-year-old woman was killed early Friday morning as she was riding a motorcycle in Narathiwat’s Rangae district. The woman was identified as Jehmenoh Sani, a resident of a village in the district’s Tambon Chalerm. Read more: The Nation
Two people, one a young woman university student, were killed and three others wounded in two attacks by gunmen in Narathiwat province on Sunday. The young student died after being shot and seriously wounded in Muang district of Narathiwat province, police said. Read more: Bangkok Post
NARATHIWAT, July 16 – The peat swamp forest in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat continues burning with a persistent smouldering fire for the fifth day despite heavy rain last night. The blaze has engulfed the hillside area straddling the Toh Dang swamp forest and Plak Pla village in Kosit subdistrict of Tak Bai for five […]
NARATHIWAT — A middle-aged woman was killed in a drive-by shooting by suspected separatists in Tak Bai district on Sunday afternoon. Dang Chankong, 62, was riding her new motorcycle home. Read more: Bangkok Post
PATTANI: Three persons were killed and 61 wounded in bomb and shooting attacks in Pattani and Narathiwat on Saturday night, authorities said on Sunday. All three deaths were in Pattani, they said. Read more: thephuketnews.com
