NARATHIWAT, April 14 – A roadside bomb exploded Saturday afternoon near an entrance of Narathiwat Airport in the provincial seat, with no one reported wounded, according to local police. Pol Col Kritsada Kaewchandee, deputy Narathiwat provincial police chief, led a bomb disposal unit and forensic experts to investigate the scene on Ban Bue Ra Pe […]
PATTANI, April 13 – Presumed insurgents opened fire at a bus in this violence-plagued province, wounding eight persons, mostly the elderly en route to make merit on the Thai New Year. About 50 people from Pattani’s Panare district chartered a bus to take part in a merit-making ceremony in adjacent province of Narathiwat on the […]
A total of 73 violent incidents took place in the Thai southern border provinces in March, killing 56 people and injuring 547 others, a university has announced. The Deep South Watch of Prince Songkla Unviersity’s Pattani Campus announced Thursday that a total of 73 insurgency-related incidents were reported in the southern border province from March […]
Assailants fire two M-79 grenades into the home of a former MP in Thailand’s Narathiwat Province. No injuries have been reported. Officers of Narathiwat Police’s Scientific Crime Detection Division inspected the two-storey house of former MP Najmudin Umar after attackers fired M-79 grenades into the premises. Read more: TAN Network
NARATHIWAT, March 25 – An assistant village headman on Sunday was gunned down by suspected insurgents in restive Narathiwat while a defence volunteer was shot dead in Pattani, according to police. Adisak Tayae, a 53-year-old assistant village headman, was killed in Rueso district on Sunday in a shooting while riding home, according to Pol Lt […]
NARATHIWAT, March 21 – One paramilitary volunteer was killed, another paramilitary volunteer, one army private and a passerby were wounded in a bombing here Wednesday morning. Somchai Khamjun, a paramilitary volunteer, died at the scene, while another paramilitary volunteer Itthipol Thongsakul and Pvt 1st Class Matorhae Chae were wounded. Read more: MCOT
NARATHIWAT, March 20 – Thai authorities combined police, military and administrative workers to raided a house in this restive southern border province, confiscating 132 methamphetamine pills and some heavy weapons. The 20-strong team launched their operation after being informed of irregular visits of teenagers to the house in Sungai Padi district. MCOT
A total of 5,086 people have been killed and 8,485 others have been injured since the insurgency in the deep South flared up eight years ago, a university announced Tuesday. The Deep South Watch of Songkhla University told a press conference that the southern insurgency had been going on for more than eight years. The […]
