NARATHIWAT, Sept 24 – Two suspects were arrested and questioned on Saturday as to whether they were involved with last Friday’s planned sequential series of bombing in this restive south province which claimed six lives, including four Malaysian tourists, while in a separate incident, one local resident was shot this morning by presumed insurgents. Lt […]
BANGKOK, Thailand — There are no battlefield guarantees in Asia’s bloodiest Islamic insurgency, a jihad in Thailand’s tropical south that has ended nearly 5,000 lives. But there are a few rules of thumb. In their self-proclaimed “holy war” to carve out the world’s newest Muslim state on the Thai-Malaysia border, jihadis consider soldiers, cops, Buddhist […]
A bomb went off Friday at a Narathiwat school, wounding a soldier guarding it and causing panic to schoolchidren. The five-kg explosive was planted under the roof of an unused building in Pracha Bamrung school in RaNgae district, and was detonated through mobile phone signals when a six-man patrol went in to take a rest. […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 22 – Thai police have detained one suspect in last week’s Narathiwat’s bombings, and are seeking arrest warrants for three additional suspects. Surveillance cameras in Sungai Kolok municipality recorded images of a motorcycle with an implanted bomb in front of a shop, the first explosion site. Read more: MCOT
Malaysia is willing to cooperate with Thailand to bring peace to the country’s southernmost provinces, Thai Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said Thursday. The minister was speaking after meeting with his Malaysian counterpart, Datuk Anifah bin Haji Aman, on the sidelines of the 66 th UN General Assembly in New York. Surapong thanked the Malaysian government […]
The death toll in Friday’s series of three bomb attacks in Narathiwat’s Su-ngai Kolok district has risen to five after a Malaysian tourist succumbed to his injuries. The district’s normally lively downtown area has been mostly silent since the bombs exploded on Friday evening. Tourism-related businesses have been hurt by the attacks as tourists, mostly […]
NARATHIWAT, Sept 18 – Police are seeking court approval to issue arrest warrants against two suspects in drug-related Narathiwat bomb attacks which killed five persons, including three Malaysian tourists, and wounding more than a hundred people, Thailand’s acting national police chief said Sunday. Acting national police chief Pol Gen Priewpan Damapong made remarks as he […]
Another victim of Friday evening’s series of three bomb attacks in Thailand’s Narathiwat Sungai Kolok district succumbed to his injuries yesterday, taking the toll to four deaths and 74 injuries. Authorities dispatched two teams to hunt for the perpetrators along the Malaysian border, and suggested the attacks might have been retaliation by a drug syndicate […]
