Car bomb found and defused near BPP base in Thepa district

 

 

Security forces found a stolen pickup truck rigged with about 80 kgs of explosives stuffed in two 15-kg gas canisters and jelly cans of gasoline near a border patrol police camp in Thepa district of Songkhla on Tuesday.

 

A team of explosives ordnance disposal (EOD) officers was then alerted of the finding and rushed to the scene to defuse the two rigged gas canisters.

 

Police are yet to locate the truck owner, Mr Kartpon Puwavimon, a resident of Thepa district, and his wife, Mrs Thitatha, who went missing after the couple went to tap rubber in their rubber plantation in Tambon Tha Muang.

 

Full Story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/car-bomb-found-defused-near-bpp-base-thepa-district/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-2-28

Were they "jelly cans" or jerry cans.

 

16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

two 15-kg gas canisters

Jan. 2nd  - ISOC ban on gas cylinders to prevent bomb-making in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani and in Songkhla provinces.

Feb. 25th - a motorcycle with a side car rigged with about 50 kgs of explosives stuffed in a 15-kg gas canister in Pattani

 

Ban not working