NARATHIWAT, Sept 5 – Hours before Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was to visit Narathiwat today four Thai Army soldiers were wounded in a bomb booby-trap incident as they were on foot patrol today. The soldiers saw a cloth placard with a challenging message while they were on a routine foot patrol. They stepped on a […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 5 – Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is visiting the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat, her first trip to the southern border province since she took office last year. She met with governors of five southern border provinces at the provincial hall for about one hour. Read more: MCOT
The Anti-Money Laundering Office confiscated a plot of land and temporarily shut down an Islamic school in Narathiwat’s Muang district due to suspicion it is being used to support terrorism in the South, AMLO secretary-general Pol Colonel Sihanat Prayoonrat said Tuesday. Read more: The Nation
NARATHIWAT, Sept 3 – Five Thai army soldiers were wounded in a bombing in Narathiwat as their pickup passed a bridge in Tak Bai district. The bomb was believed triggered by a mobile phone signal. Read more: MCOT
Bomb at Super department store in Narathiwat ignites fire at building. No report of casualties. Read more: MCOT
Security authorities in the southern provinces have tightened their guard following an attack in broad daylight on a train in Narathiwat on Tuesday, which killed a security volunteer. Police and army troops have set up more checkpoints on the road and were seen patrolling the railway, paying particular attention risky spots in Cho I Rong, […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 26 – A suspected insurgent was shot dead by a defence volunteer at a train station in Narathiwat after he killed a soldier informant at a train station in Narathiwat. Two suspected insurgents on a motorcycle gunned down Mama Bueraheng, 56, a soldier informant at Cho Ai Rong train station. Read more: MCOT
Immigration police are looking into a possible human-trafficking scheme in which Cambodian muslims legally enter Thailand through Sa Kaeo as tourists for 14 days but work as rubber tappers in Narathiwat for up to six months. When they want to go home, they let themselves be arrested for illegal entry by abandoning their travel documents. […]
