The death toll in the series of three bomb attacks that rocked Thailand’s Narathiwat Sungai Kolok district on September 16 has risen to six after a journalist succumbed to his injuries yesterday. Meanwhile, soldiers yesterday interrogated two suspects in a separate bomb attack on Friday at a school in the same province. Read more: The […]
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 […]
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. […]
BANGKOK, Sept 20 – Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation on Wednesday reported flooding is ongoing in 24 provinces and that total fatalities have now hit 130 persons, with two persons still missing since the country was majorly impacted by tropical storm Nock-Ten on July 25. Flooding in many provinces is still worrying and […]
A ninth-grader was found hanging at her home in Lampang’s Sop Prab district, a few days after a teacher, who was arrested in Pathum Thani for allegedly raping her over the past five years, hanged himself last Saturday. The 15-year-old girl’s mother said her daughter appeared distraught after Phayonsak Udom was arrested last Friday. “I […]
The teachers federation in the three Thailand’s southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani yesterday issued a four-point statement saying teachers were a main target of those behind the unrest in the region, and urged teachers to strictly follow security measures. Federation deputy president Manop Boonthaviroj said the situation had worsened since 37-year-old teacher Khanit […]
A school teacher was shot to death and his body set on fire by a group of suspected militants on Tuesday afternoon in Raman district of Yala province. Pol Lt-Col Krisanapong Paetsith, chief investigator at Raman district police station, said the charred body of Kanit Lamnui, 38, a teacher of Ban Kue Meng School in […]
BANGKOK, 29 August 2011 (NNT) – The number of patients with foot and mouth disease has climbed to 1,532 in Bangkok so far this year while children with the symptoms should be taken to the hospital immediately. Director of Public Health System Development Division Mr. Sunthorn Sunthornchart said statistics revealed that 4 people in Thailand […]
