Artikel tagged “insurgency”

  • Ranger killed in Pattani roadside bomb ambush

    Ranger killed in Pattani roadside bomb ambush

    One ranger has been killed after southern insurgents detonated a roadside homemade bomb to ambush his patrol unit in Pattani’s Panare district this morning. Police say the attack happened at 10.20am on the main road in Ban Rawor village in Tambon Krawa. 34 year old Ranger Damrong Thong-u was killed by the blast.

  • Village leader killed in Yala in an insurgent ambush

    Village leader killed in Yala in an insurgent ambush

    FILE PHOTO An assistant village headman has been ambushed and shot dead in Yala’s city district just after midnight today (Wednesday). 53 year old Sakariya Waemamah was killed on the main village road in Ban Taseh village at about 12.05am while riding home on his motorcycle. Police found 23 spent shells from an M16 assault rifle and two spent shells from a shot gun at the scene

  • Police officer and wanted insurgent shot in Songkhla clash

    Police officer and wanted insurgent shot in Songkhla clash

    One policeman has been injured along with an alleged insurgent when troops and southern insurgents clashed in Songkhla’s Sabayoi district today. The exchange of gunfire happened at 10:30am this morning when troops and police reportedly searched for suspects in Ban Long Khuan village in Tambon Khuha. The team received a tipoff that December 26’s Khuan Niang district bombing suspects might have been hiding in the village.

  • No sign of concrete policies for conflict in the far South

    No sign of concrete policies for conflict in the far South

    by Don Pathan Parties offer few if any answers for a 15 year old deadly insurgency that successive governments have failed to quell. Peace and conflict have never been significant parts of any political party platform in Thailand. This is because a sustainable solution calls for long-term commitment to a policy that could prove to be politically costly

  • Security stepped up in Phuket in the wake of Satun and Patthalung bombs

    Security stepped up in Phuket in the wake of Satun and Patthalung bombs

    Phuket security officials have increased safety and tourist security after suspects set off pipe bombs in Statun and Patthalung during the weekend. Although the southern provincial trio of Songkhla, Pattani and Narathiwat have been the site of a 20 year insurgency between southern Thais and Muslim insurgents, provinces north of the region have been largely spared any insurgency-related violence. That is until this weekend’s attacks which are clearly aimed at destabilising the region in the weeks before the election.

  • Southern ranger killed, two injured in Yala bomb ambush

    Southern ranger killed, two injured in Yala bomb ambush

    PHOTOS: The Nation Southern insurgents have detonated a home-made bomb in a roadside ambush of a patrol unit of rangers in Yala’s Bannang Sata district.

  • Southern insurgency: Ranger shot dead in Songkhla house

    Southern insurgency: Ranger shot dead in Songkhla house

    FILE PHOTO: The latest shooting in a spate of recent violence in the southern provinces – The Nation A ranger based in Yala has been shot dead at his home in Songkhla’s Muang district.

  • Policeman murdered in brazen Pattani ‘drive by’

    Policeman murdered in brazen Pattani ‘drive by’

    A policeman is dead after being shot outside his precinct station in Pattani’s Khok Pho district yesterday.

  • Suspects are denying involvement in Tuesday’s Songkhla bomb attack

    Suspects are denying involvement in Tuesday’s Songkhla bomb attack

    PHOTOS: The Nation Three suspects, arrested in connection with Tuesday’s murder and car-bomb attack in Songkhla, have denied any involvement in the incidents. Eight border patrol police members, including five women, were injured when a bomb, placed in a pickup truck, exploded at about 5.50am on a rural road near a knockdown structure used by border patrol police. The pickup used for the explosion was also found to have been stolen from a retiree, found murdered inside his home in Songkhla province on Tuesday

  • Defence volunteers robbed of their guns in Pattani

    Defence volunteers robbed of their guns in Pattani

    by Pares Lohasan Police a hunting for six males suspected to have seized guns and bullets from 10 village defence volunteers assigned to guard a local school in Pattani province’s Sai Buri district last night. The suspects made off with four shotguns and 20 bullets.  Sai Buri police superintendent Pol Colonel Montri Khongwatmai led forensic police to inspect Ban Seu Dang School in Moo 4 of tambon Troh Bon on Monday morning