Pattani, Thailand News

Cabinet will be asked in two weeks to consider paying a 7.5 million baht compensation package to the families of victims of violence in the South, Justice Minister Pracha Promnok said on Sunday.

The violence escalated in the far South after security forces killed four innocent Malay Muslims in Nong Chik of Pattani in late January.

A pickup bomb exploded in the heart of Pattani town yesterday morning, killing a pensioner and injuring 11 other victims.

A retired teacher was killed and 13 villagers wounded when a truck bomb exploded on Thursday in Thailand's restive Muslim south, the latest in a wave of separatist violence in the region bordering Malaysia.

Who could have imagined that the violence in the troubled South would have reached the point that it has today? It seems to be dragging on for a long time, but hopefully not forever.

By Fadzli Ramli KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 4 -- An academician in South Korea, a country known for its K-Pop culture, is a surprising admirer of the Malay jawi script.

A woman was shot dead while driving with her husband and son in Pattani, the Bangkok Post reported.

The government may pay the same compensation to families of four Muslims shot dead by military rangers in Pattani as paid to those of red shirt protesters if investigation results show the rangers shot them mistakenly.

PHUKET: Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra yesterday ordered an investigation into the shooting deaths of four Muslims by paramilitaries in the restive south on Sunday.

A paramilitary ranger was killed in a drive-by shooting in Pattani and a police sergeant major seriously wounded by two gunmen in Narathiwat on Wednesday.

It seems likely that at least some of the dead and injured on the pickup truck fired on by paramilitary rangers in Pattani on Sunday night are innocent people.

The initial investigation into an incident has shown that four people who were shot dead by rangers in Pattani on Sunday night were not militants as alleged by the authorities earlier.

Thailand: Thailand has ordered an investigation into the deadly shooting of four Muslim civilians by paramilitaries in the restive south, a top official said Tuesday, after the deaths sparked local outrage.

Four villagers were killed and four others injured when gunmen attacked a pick-up truck in Pattani's Nong Chik district on Sunday night.

A ranger was wounded in a presumed insurgent assault on a Pattani base on Sunday night, while four residents were killed and another five wounded in a roadside attack on their vehicle a short time later in Pattani's Nong Chik district.

About 11pm, Aree Topho, 21, a villager, was shot three times in the chest while travelling on a motorcycle on a road near Ban Prama in tambon Sateng Nok of Muang district by the pillion rider of another motorcycle.

Insurgents in Pattani yesterday launched an attack on a naval security outpost in Sai Buri district, in an attempt to draw a relief force into an ambush trap where a roadside bomb and gunfire wounded six marines.

A policeman and his teenage son were killed in a shooting in Pattani's Saiburi district on Tuesday morning, Pol Col Arsis Ausmayi, chief of Saiburi police station, said.

A policeman and his teenage son were killed in a shooting in Pattani's Saiburi district on Tuesday morning, Pol Col Arsis Ausmayi, chief of Saiburi police station, said.