Narathiwat, Yala rocked by bombs

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Narathiwat, Yala rocked by bombs



BANGKOK: -- A spate of bomb attacks and ambushes in Narathiwat and Yala provinces killed one woman and wounded a dozen on Sunday.

The latest bomb attack Sunday night in Sungai Kolok district of Narathiwat occurred at a grocery shop “Centre Supermarket”. The shop was burned to the ground. Nobody was hurt.

Owner of the shop Mr Preecha Wutthidej told police that he heard several explosions before the fire would happen and engulfed the whole one-storey building.

Several fire engines rushed to the scene but only it was wholely gutted.

Earlier on the same night in Sungai Kolok, bomb explosions rocked four locations, killing one woman and wounded a dozen others.

The explosions were reported at in front of Pitharn car company office, at a power pole in front of Sungai Kolok hospital, near Chantulee hotel and at a gold shop.

The explosion at the car company killed a woman identified as Sarika Mama,and wounded nine others.

One explosion was said to be a motorcycle bomb,and others were homemade bombs triggered by mobile phones.

Elsewhere in Sunga Bodies district, southern militants ambushed four police outposts and checkpoints wounding three police.

In Tak Bai district, a hand grenade was thrown at a customs office slighlt injured five people.

In neighbouring Yala, four explosions and one ambush were reported in Yaha,Thantho and Banang Data districts. Nobody was hurt.

Source: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/narathiwat-yala-rocked-bombs/


-- Thai PBS 2014-05-12

[fab4]

Thawil is really pulling out the stops down there, good job he was reinstated...................

[bigbamboo]

Political chaos, corruption, grenades, bombs.......... and smiles.

[bigbamboo]

Thawil is really pulling out the stops down there, good job he was reinstated...................

You think he can undo the damage of the last ten years in ten minutes? I thought you were smarter than that.

[Somtamnication]

Political chaos, corruption, grenades, bombs.......... and smiles.

Wait wait.....and gpd will continue to grow, hotel overbookings and TAT road show (circus?) says to the world that all is ok.

[love1012]

.................another mess stemming from the Dubai fugitive...................his massacre in Tak Bai will NEVER be forgotten.............I rememeber him on TV after.................."dey.......dey...dey.........dey mooslim ...........dey fasting...........i not do"!! Watch the documentary for full details.

[wandasloan]

You think he can undo the damage of the last ten years in ten minutes? I thought you were smarter than that.

Well, it's 10 days, but who's quibbling? The point is that I had thought it was Thawil that was smarter than that. Broadcasting with that smarmy smile of his that he was going to fix things up in the South as top number one no-delay priority simply invites the kind of responses he's getting. He wanted it known that a REAL security man was on the job. And now we see every day what that's all about.

If he had ever sounded serious and not just triumphant over the eeeeevil Lord Voldemort na Dubai, I suspect he would not be getting any of these comments at all. No one doubts the complicated problems of the South. But Thawil made it appear he did doubt them. Too bad for him if he gets a few dabs of ridicule on his suit.

.................another mess stemming from the Dubai fugitive...................his massacre in Tak Bai will NEVER be forgotten.

Nor should it be. It is a main one of hundreds of such problems, killings, tortures, ignorances, patronising, black marketeering, trafficking and more. Too bad Thawil won't even talk about ANY of them, starting with Tak Bai. And I mean that sincerely. It won't be fixed by the fine, dedicated National Security Council secretary-general or anyone else until he does.

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Edited May 12, 2014 by wandasloan

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One killed in explosions in Narathiwat, Yala
By Digital Content



NARATHIWAT, May 12 -- At least one person was killed and 14 others wounded in a series of bombings in Thailand's southernmost provinces of Narathiwat and Yala yesterday.

Six explosions occurred in Narathiwat's Su-ngai Kolok district, with at least one person reported dead and nine others were wounded.

Police said the six explosions in Su-ngai Kolok occurred at about 7.30pm Sunday.

The first two were homemade bombs, one hidden in a motorcycle parked near a Look Suea Anusorn Road restaurant, the second built into a metal box left near the Pithan Panich company's Honda motorcycle showroom on Busayapan Road.

A third explosive was in a motorcycle parked near Pithan Panich company's Honda motorcycle and Toyota car showrooms on Prachawiwat Road. The explosion killed a woman and wounded another.

Fifteen miniutes after the first three explosions, a second series occurred at the Suzuki motorcycle showroom on Charoen Khet Road. The 5-kg homemade bomb was built in a metal box.

The fifth bomb was at a drainage canal on Asia Road and the sixth was at electrical power post on Sai Thong Road.

Nine people in total wounded from the six bombings.

In Su-ngai Padi district, an explosion occurred at the Supercentre Department Store. The fire started by the bomb continued to rage in the building.

Ban Khok Ta School in Sungai Padi was torched and totally burned. The school would be closed until Friday.

Islam Bamrung School, and five rooms of a two storey commercial building were damaged in arson attacks.

One volunteer security guard was wounded by shooting while inspecting the scene.

A bomb exploded at the customs office in Yala's Tak Bai, wounding five people while another explosive device was found in a trash bin. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-05-12

[sumtingwong]

Sad that this has happened. Any guesses who did it?

[andyww]

My brother in law is the owner of the Chantulee Hotel, which was bombed. The bomb was laced under his car which luckily he didnt use that day.

Fortunately everyone is OK but the place is a real mess, just been looking at some pictures he sent.

This conflict in S Thailand seems to be ignored by the rest of the world, never gets reported anywhere outside Thailand.