In Thailand’s restive Muslim south, six people have been killed and five wounded in the most recent upsurge in violence blamed on separatist militants. Reuters reports that, “the attacks, which involved drive-by shootings and bombings, took place late on Monday and on Tuesday and targeted both Muslims and the region’s minority Buddhists.” A Buddhist couple, […]
BANGKOK, 5 September 2010 (NNT) – Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has tasked the Ministry of Education with presenting proactive plans to tackle gangster students and their street brawls after a nine-year-old boy was shot dead during a fight last week. Speaking in his weekly television program “Confidence in Thailand with Prime Minister Abhisit” airing from […]
Pattani – A Buddhist couple were killed in a drive-by shooting in this southern border province early Wednesday. Police said the couple were shot by a pillion rider while riding their motorcycle to a rubber plantation in Ban Thungpla village in Khokpho district at 3:30 am. The two were identified as Surasit Iadkaew, 50 and […]
An eight-year-old schoolboy was killed in a shooting at a bus by a number of technical school students on Ramkhamhaeng road on Wednesday morning, police reported. Police said the shooting took place about 7am. A group of youths dressed in technical school uniforms followed bus No 113 (Min Buri-Hua Lamphong) on motorcycles along Ramkhamhaeng road. […]
