Bomb, shooting, fires in Thailand’s Far-South

Two soldiers and an assistant village chief were wounded in attacks in Narathiwat and Yala provinces on Thursday morning as a series of fires blamed on arsonists blazed up in apparently coordinated attacks in neighbouring Pattani. In Narathiwat, militants detonated a home-made bomb while a pick-up truck with six soldiers on board was heading for […]

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10 rangers wounded in Yala bombing

YALA, Feb 13 – A roadside bombing in this southern border province left ten paramilitary rangers wounded, Bannang Sata police chief said on Monday. The explosion hit a pickup truck carrying the rangers on their way to relieve an earlier shift of their peers giving security to teachers and students in Narathiwat’s Ruso district. Read […]

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Deep South violence victims to receive THB7.5mil compensation

BANGKOK, 4 January 2012 (NNT) – The government of Thailand has confirmed on Friday that victims of years of violence in strife-torn southern border region will be eligible for the THB7-million compensation as well. Mr. Yongyuth Wichaidit, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, revealed that the Southern Border Provinces Development Strategy Committee has recently […]

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Policeman shot, wounded in far South

A policeman was seriously wounded by two gunmen in Cho Airong district of Narathiwat province this afternoon. Pol Lt Kittikhun Pattamanusorn of Cho Airong police station said Pol Sr Sgt-Maj Veerachai Yudam, 40, was attacked while returning home on his motorcycle on the Yaning-Cho Airong road in tambon Chuap by two men on another motorcycle […]

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