More than 700,000 methamphetamine pills worth $3.7 million seized by Thai police

BANGKOK, June 4 – A drug dealer was arrested in Pathumthani province in possession of 786,000 methamphetamines worth over Bt100 million in street value, two pick-up trucks and Bt3-million cash. Thailand’s national police chief Gen Wichean Potephosree on Saturday said Aniwat Sae-Lew was arrested by Metropolitan Police Bureau while he was delivering the meth to […]

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Grenade attack in Yala, ammo bust in North

Two students and six other civilians were injured by the explosion of an M67 grenade thrown by a militant in the old market area of Yala’s Muang district about 7.35am on Wednesday, police said. Witnesses told police that a man wearing a university student’s uniform and riding a motorcycle threw the grenade at a pickup […]

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Blaze sweeps Nakhon Ratchasima

Fire yesterday ripped through 30 houses in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Pak Thong Chai District, causing more than Bt100 million in damage and slightly injuring three people. Pak Thong Chai market – in the heart of the community which has just recovered from a 30year worst flood in October – was hard hit by the fire, prompting […]

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Three slain by gunmen in Pattani

Three people were shot dead by militants in Thung Yang Daeng district of Pattani province on Tuesday. Police said the attack happened shortly after noon at a garage in tambon Nam Dam where six men were having tea. Eyewitnesses told police that a number of men arrived in a black pick-up truck and opened fire […]

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