NARATHIWAT, Jan 24 – Three more suspected insurgents surrendered to the police in this violence-plagued southern border province, following almost 100 people turning themselves in last September. Chamnun Mueandam, Narathiwat deputy governor and Army special unit commander Maj-Gen Phisit Sitthisarn received the three men at the special unit office on Thursday. Read more: MCOT
Double insurgent attacks – gunfire followed by a motorcycle bomb – in Narathiwat caused injuries to five people including three children Wednesday evening. A group of insurgents opened fire on a karaoke bar in Muang district’s tambon Khoke Khian, causing injuries to two adults, before the gunmen fled. Read more: The Nation
NARATHIWAT, Jan 3 – Heavy rain triggered flooding in several southern provinces and disaster zones have been declared to facilitate processes to assist flood victims. The flooding in Narathiwat keeps rising due to heavy rain in the past few days. Read more: MCOT
NARATHIWAT, Dec 20 – Seven men broke into a subdistrict administrative office in this southern province and set it afire today, police reported. Police and fire personnel rushed to Bacho subdistrict to put out the blaze, but did not succeed. The administrative building was destroyed. Read more: MCOT
NARATHIWAT, Dec 18 – Local transport pickup carrying government workers including teachers was ambushed by presumed insurgents in Narathiwat’s Cho-airong district on Monday evening, killing two people while five were wounded. According to initial investigation, police said the truck, contracted to transport the government workers from home to their workplaces, between the Narathiwat provincial seat, […]
Thailand and Malaysia have agreed to build two cross-border bridges linking the neighbouring country with Tak Bai and Sungai Kolok districts of violence-plagued Narathiwat province to boost bilateral economic cooperation. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul, who represented Thailand at yesterday’s 12th meeting of the Thai-Malaysian Joint Committee, said the cost of constructing […]
BANGKOK, Dec 14 – Village and community leaders in insurgent violence-affected provinces in Thailand’s far South will be asked to lend their hands to the government’s counter-insurgency response, Deputy Prime Minister Chalerm Yubumrung said today. He said he instructed governors of the four southernmost provinces – Yala, Pattani, Narathiwat and Songkhla – to meet with […]
Thai-Buddhist teachers in three districts of Narathiwat on Tuesday refused to work following reports that muslim insurgents are now targeting the Buddhist teachers. An informed source said four Buddhist teachers at four schools in Chanae, Rangae and Joh I Rong districts, instead reported to the central authority in the province. The schools there opened as […]
