Southern Thailand police chief shunted after blasts

The Narathiwat provincial police chief has been moved to an inactive post following a string of bomb blasts in the southern province, including Monday’s car bomb attack on a police apartment block in Si Sakhon district. Chaitat Inthanujit has been transferred to assist at the police operational centre in Yala. The transfer order took effect […]

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Thai Interior Ministry warns insurgents stepping up attacks in deep South; one killed

PATTANI, Feb 19 — Deputy Interior Minister Thavorn Senneam on Saturday warned that insurgents operating in the deep South have stepped up unrest during 2011, while presumed insurgents shot dead a former member of the Tambon (Sub-district) Administration Organisation (TAO) of the southern-troubled Pattani province. Mr Thavorn said that there were signs that insurgents in […]

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Assistant village head shot dead in Narathiwat

Narathiwat – An assistant village head was killed by muslim insurgents in an ambush in this southern border province Saturday. Police said Buaraheng Khader, 43, was killed at 8:30 am on a rural road in Hulu Pareh village in Tambon Tanyongmus of Rangae district. He was the assistant village head for Hulu Pareh village. The […]

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