Police in Thailand’s violent south say suspected Muslim militants killed six people and wounded another Friday in coordinated attacks. Authorities said suspected insurgents detonated a bomb buried in a road, as a truck carrying six defense volunteers drove to the scene of an earlier shooting at a rubber plantation. Five of the volunteers were killed […]
BANGKOK, Aug 24 – Thai Army Commander-in-Chief Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha on Wednesday conceded that the security and protection measures for local residents in the three insurgency-plagued southern border provinces are still not fully effective but pledged that the army has addressed the violence by strictly adhering to the rule of law. The army chief said […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 22 – An army volunteer ranger on Monday was gunned down in Narathiwat’s Rangae district while working in a rubber plantation, according to local police. Nirosuenan Jehnu, 31, was shot three times in his torso and head and died immediately, according to Pol Col Suchart Asavachinda, superintendent of Rangae police station. The victim’s […]
BANGKOK, 18 August 2011 (NNT) – Thailand’s Southern Border Provinces Administration Centre (SBPAC) Secretary-General, Panu Uthairat, has indicated that the situation in the 3 southern most provinces has improved as more residents have been helpful to the authority. The levels of insurgency and violence have been reduced to a certain extent with local cooperation. Since […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 17 – A man on Wednesday was gunned down by a suspected insurgent while tapping latex in a rubber plantation in violence-plagued Narathiwat’s Rangae district, according to local police. Abdullah Samae, 34, was shot several times in his torso by a gunman armed with an M16 assault rifle, according to Pol Col Suchart […]
Suspected insurgents detonated a time bomb near a market in Narathiwat’s Jor Irong district today but no injury or death was reported. Following the explosion at 9.50am, police along with a bomb disposal team rushed to the Ban Yaning Market and found pieces of the homemade bomb, reportedly placed in a one-kilogram plastic engine oil […]
NARATHIWAT, Aug 12 — Three inmates injured in Thursday’s Narathiwat prison riot were sent to Naradhiwasrajnagarindra Hospital for treatment, as the standoff between inmates and prison warders continued for the second day on Friday. Narathiwat Governor Thanon Vejjakornkanon reportedly contacted the hospital to transfer the three prisoners to hospital for treatment and asked the doctors […]
The unrest in Thailand’s deep South has orphaned 4,455 children and widowed up to 2,295 women during the past eight years. The statistics have been compiled since 2004. Pattani has seen the highest number of or 1,691 orphaned children. Coming second was Narathiwat with 1,586 orphans. Yala came third with 1,027 orphaned victims. There have […]
