Heavily armed gold shop raiders foiled by wily owner who threw 20kg explosive device into tank

[webfact]

The attack in Narathiwat appeared to deploy several groups of armed men to thwart and divert a security response while they robbed a large department store selling gold. 

Police in Narathiwat are investigating an elaborate raid on a department store and several villages in the Tak Bai district of the province on Sunday morning. Large groups of armed men attacked security checkpoints, downed electricity poles but failed to gain access to a gold job, which appeared to be the object of the attack. The main body of attackers fled by boat to Malaysia. During the attack, the owner of the department store, which sold gold, picked up a 20 kg explosive device and threw it into a tank after it was placed against the front door of the premises.

Police and security authorities in Narathiwat province are investigating an attempted gold shop robbery on Saturday night in the Ja He area of the Tak Bai District.

 

The attack which failed spectacularly involved a large group of heavily armed men planting ten bombs at six locations while throwing pipe bombs and firing at security checkpoints.

 

by James Morris and Son Nguyen

TOP: Scenes from Sunday as military and police forensic teams collect evidence throughout the Tak Bai district. (Inset Top Right) One of the masked attackers was captured on CCTV footage by the Narathiwat Police.

 

Full story: Thai Examiner.com 2023-10-24

 

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[VinnieK]

What a confusing bs article..

[2baht]

3 minutes ago, VinnieK said:

What a confusing bs article..

What's confusing and what's bs???

[cdemundo]

The robbers had a military tank?

Crazy.

[hotchilli]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

The attack which failed spectacularly involved a large group of heavily armed men planting ten bombs at six locations while throwing pipe bombs and firing at security checkpoints.

Time to sort out the south once and for-all... real dialouge.

 

[Pique Dard]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

During the attack, the owner of the department store, which sold gold, picked up a 20 kg explosive device and threw it into a tank after it was placed against the front door of the premises.

...i can't help wondering whether the shop owner was aware that he was lifting a 20kg explosive device

[klauskunkel]

Now, that's where you need elephant patrols!

[RobU]

4 hours ago, cdemundo said:

The robbers had a military tank?

Crazy.

You are making an assumption there are many things called a tank. In fact the term tank applied to the military vehicle was applied to the first military vehicles in the first world war to fool the Germans in to thinking it was a mobile water tank. The manager threw a 20kg bomb placed against the door into a tank. I presume it is a water tank or similar so the device explosion was contained. Hence the device did not blow the door off and the thieves could not gain entry and steal the gold

[RobU]

Brave man that manager

[Purdey]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

The main body of attackers fled by boat to Malaysia.

It seems they knew Malaysia wouldn't stop them. I wonder why?

[sammieuk1]

20kg bomb!! no gold shop no gold they just needed enough to blow the bloody doors off surely 🤔 

[chickenslegs]

7 minutes ago, sammieuk1 said:

20kg bomb!! no gold shop no gold they just needed enough to blow the bloody doors off surely 🤔 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, VinnieK said:

What a confusing bs article..

There's no BS in the full article and the events are described clearly to those who can read and comprehend English.

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, 2baht said:

6 hours ago, VinnieK said:

What a confusing bs article..

What's confusing and what's bs???

Hear, hear!

[Liverpool Lou]

5 hours ago, cdemundo said:

The robbers had a military tank?

Crazy.

Only if you didn't read the full report properly. 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

...i can't help wondering whether the shop owner was aware that he was lifting a 20kg explosive device

The article clearly suggests that he was aware, that's why he did it.

[digger70]

6 hours ago, cdemundo said:

The robbers had a military tank?

Crazy.

Armed explosive device weighed 20kg

Mr Pipat Wongchaisri owns the business. 

At some point on Sunday morning, he discovered an improvised explosive device and threw it into a water tank to subdue its impact.

The device weighed 20 kilograms in a fire extinguisher, had a digital ignition attached, and was armed. It was placed at the entrance door to Mr Pipat’s premises.

[cdemundo]

1 hour ago, RobU said:

You are making an assumption there are many things called a tank. In fact the term tank applied to the military vehicle was applied to the first military vehicles in the first world war to fool the Germans in to thinking it was a mobile water tank. The manager threw a 20kg bomb placed against the door into a tank. I presume it is a water tank or similar so the device explosion was contained. Hence the device did not blow the door off and the thieves could not gain entry and steal the gold

Not making any assumption, hence the question mark.

You presume?, no you make an assumption.

[Iron Tongue]

OK makes sense if it was explosives packed-into an extinguisher.

But did throwing a 50-lb extinguisher into a fountain/pond keep it from exploding?

Edited October 24, 2023 by Iron Tongue

[KannikaP]

35 minutes ago, chickenslegs said:

 

Was that not a phrase said to Marianne Faithful after an orgy with The Stones, The Beatles and Jim Morrison's lot.

[PETERTHEEATER]

7 hours ago, Pique Dard said:

...i can't help wondering whether the shop owner was aware that he was lifting a 20kg explosive device

A 20kg object is not something even a fit person could throw very far. No description of the 'tank'.

 

I have travelled all over Thailand in my lifetime but I have yet to see an entire department store devoted to the sale of gold.

 

Presumably the 'heavily armed' attackers each had a howitzer on their back.

 

"Quick, let's jump in this boat and paddle down the coast to Malaysia, the Coastguard will never catch us" 😋

[VinnieK]

10 hours ago, 2baht said:

What's confusing and what's bs???

Tank?

Explosive device?

 

Clearly, it was Muslim insurgents.

Doing a half_a$$ Hamas impersonation

 

 

[Dogmatix]

During the attack, the owner of the department store, which sold gold, picked up a 20 kg explosive device and threw it into a tank after it was placed against the front door of the premises.

 

This is complete nonsense probably translated by a moron with hardly any knowledge of English and tidied up a subeditor with no knowledge of Thai. If you at Thai media accounts of this, you will see that that they the attack took place after 1.00 a.m. when the owner wasn't around.  The bandits had made a bomb out of a fire extinguisher. There was no tank.

[StayinThailand2much]

10 hours ago, cdemundo said:

The robbers had a military tank?

Crazy.

 

Or the one translating the Thai article used Google Translate...

[snowgard]

I'm sure they mean a "water tank"!!! 😉

[Stargeezr]

It seems like some newbie posters like to post before reading an entire arcticle.

  Way to go you old posters, thanks.  Brave shop owner.

[bbko]

I just watched the video, Holy %$&%! It looked like the bank heist scene from the movie Heat.

 

Here's a link to the website with the video (Mods, please delete if not allowed)

 

 

https://www.newsflare.com/video/599674/suspected-terrorists-attack-military-checkpoint-and-gold-shop-in-southern-thailand

[observer90210]

Who the hell sells these criminals military grade weapons in Thailand ? A few guesses surely....

[kiwikeith]

19 hours ago, klauskunkel said:

Now, that's where you need elephant patrols!

Took the words out of my mouth 

[MarcelV]

Masha Allah! The gold shop owner was a fortunate man. Insha Allah there will be no more heartbreak and suffering in the beautiful Fatoni region.