NARATHIWAT, Feb 9 – One suspected insurgent was detained Wednesday for questioning after being captured in a military raid in Narathiwat. About 50 soldiers raided an area in the Baan Jor Kor mountain range in Cho Ai Rong district after learning that a hideout of a Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) armed force was located there […]
No alms walks for Narathiwat monks In the wake of insurgent attacks targeting Buddhists, monks residing at 13 temples in Narathiwat have stopped their routine morning alms walk for a month, starting today. The decision has been made by the Sangha Supreme Council and was announced yesterday, at the recommendation of the provincial authorities. Each […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 26 — A Thai local government defence volunteer was seriously wounded in a shooting attack in the southernmost province of Narathiwat’s Rangae district while riding a motorcycle to work. The victim, identified as Mudtorpa Jeteh, 31, a defence volunteer at the Rangae district office, was shot three times in the stomach by unidentified […]
A bomb blast in southern Thailand has killed nine villagers and wounded two others, police say. The villagers were driving in Yala, one of three restive provinces, when a bomb exploded next to their truck. The blast occurred less than a week after separatist rebels killed four soldiers in an attack on an army base […]
PATTANI, Jan 25 – Thai police here have detained 18 suspects for suspected involvement in an attack at an army outpost in Rangae district last week. Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) spokesman Col Banpot Poolpian said a joint operation of 300 military and police searched for insurgents who attacked the military outpost in Narathiwat’s Rangae […]
A villager was shot dead in an ambush in Narathiwat’s Muang district early Sunday morning, said Pol Lt-Col Dulyaman Yaena, chief of Khok Kian police station. Chuay Promsorn, 69, a resident of Ban Khok Baka in tambon Khok Kian of Muang district, was attacked on the intra-village road in Ban Hutae Tuwaw of Muang district […]
NARATHIWAT, Jan 20 – Insurgents carried out a surprise attack on an army unit in Narathiwat’s Rangae district Wednesday night, killing four soldiers–including an army company commander–and wounding six others. The attack occurred just two days after the government extended its emergency decree in the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala, and only […]
BANGKOK, Jan 18 – The Cabinet on Tuesday extended the state of emergency in Thailand’s three southernmost insurgency-plagued provinces for another three months. The extension is the 22nd since the law was introduced in mid-2005 to restore peace in the southern border region. The special law facilitates the operations of security agencies and allows them […]
