Southern Violence : Warnings on Car Bombs

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PM Admits to Receiving Intelligence Reports on Possible Car Bomb Attack
16 December 2010

Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has admitted that the government has received intelligence reports suggesting a possible car bomb attack during the New Year's holiday.

He said he has ordered related agencies to be on the lookout for possible attempts.

thailandoutlook.tv

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Police Officials on High Alert after News of More Car Bombs in South
17 December 2010

The National Police chief has ordered officials to be extra vigilant during the New Year holidays after intelligence reports suggest more car bombs are being planned for Had Yai and the three southernmost provinces.

thailandoutlook.tv

[StrontiumDog]

Started a thread on this already....earlier today....but nevermind....

https://teakdoor.com/thailand-and-asi...ml#post1632365 (Raids to pre-empt southern militants' attacks during New Year)

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Police chief: PM worries about report of possible New Year's car bombings
วันศุกร์ ที่ 17 ธ.ค. 2553



YALA, Dec 17 - Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is concerned about a report on a possible car bomb plot in the southern border provinces and ordered heightened security including intelligence and setting up checkpoints, National Police Chief Wichean Potephosree said on Friday.

Pol Gen Wichean spoke in Yala today referring to a report by a security agency in the southern border provinces about a car bomb plot in Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla’s Hat Yai during the NewYear.

Despite the report, he said the situation will be under control. He said the police were not ignoring the report and were carrying out inspections and implementing actions to prevent such bombings.

Meanwhile, a special unit of soldiers in Songkhla has been deployed to a permanent 24-hour checkpoint at Baankwanmeed in Chana district, an entrance to Hat Yai's business district, the provincial seat and the three southern border provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.

Random checks on vehicles have been conducted to prevent transport of weapons and suspicious objects into Hat Yai.

Patrol units have been deployed at minor roads leading to Hat Yai and are working with provincial police, border patrol police and defense volunteers to set up mobile checkpoints.

Meanwhile, Pinchai Pinkaew, inspector of the Social Development and Human Security on Friday presented compensation of Bt2.8 million (US$93,000) to 63 people affected by violence in Pattani this year.

Of 63 victims, 13 people who were severely wounded and undergoing rehabilitation, received Bt200,000 ($6,666) each. Families of 20 persons who had died were given 6,000 baht ($200) for each case. Thirty persons injured in insurgent attacks received 3,000 baht ($100).

The local office of the ministry in Pattani reported the situation that since 2004, 787 women in pattani became widows after losing their husbands in violence. The government has already given 241 million baht (US$8 million) to affected people.

mcot.net

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Four people wounded in Narathiwat car bombing
วันพุธ ที่ 29 ธ.ค. 2553



NARATHIWAT, Dec 29 – Four people were wounded by a car bomb at a Highway Department office in the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat Wednesday morning.

Hidden in a pick-up truck, the bomb exploded in Bajo district, injuring four people--Abul Dueramae, 24; Uma Jeror, 69; Satorpa Uma, 50; and Masamree Naleng, 26. They were all sent to hospital.

Sungai Kolok police superintendent Pol Col Nitinai Langyanai said security officials would tighten security in the community and the border areas to boost confidence in safety among members of the public during the New Year.

Yesterday police arrested one suspect, Rorsaree Kudo, 35, at Sungai Kolok railway station in relation to the bombing at a Pattani police station in 2004. Officials made a history record and sent him to Pattani police headquarters.

Meanwhile, in Yala, a bomb was triggered by suspected insurgents while eight soldiers were on foot patrol to clear the way for teachers to travel to school.

After the explosion, the military and the ambushing insurgents exchanged gunfire for several minutes. Some soldiers were wounded, had concussions and a lingering ringing in their ears from the bomb blast.

mcot.net

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PM: Bombs won't affect lifting of decree
29/12/2010

It's unlikely the car-bomb explosions in Narathiwat and Yala were a direct response by insurgents to the lifting of the emergency decree from some other districts of the souternmost border provinces, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Wednesday.

Mr Abhisit was speaking after a meeting with the Internal Security Operations Centre.

He said the explosions occurred in areas where the emergency decree remains in force and they would not influence the government's decision on whether to revoke the decree in other areas in the restive South.

Authorities would just have to deal with the sporadic violence in the region, he said.

When reporters asked him about the government's measures to prevent similar attacks in Bangkok and main city areas, he said measures, personnel and equipment had been prepared.

"The public can be 100 per cent confident about the security situation during the New Year countdown in different areas in Bangkok, and I ask the people to cooperate with authorities," he said.

bangkokpost.com

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(Source: Matichon)

From Matichon, December 31, 2010
The caption reads: Car bomb - The teams of police and soldiers collect evidence from a pickup car bomb on the road in front of the Bacho Highway Office in the municipality of Tambon Bacho, in the Bacho district in Narathiwat province causing five5 highway officers to suffer injury. The event occurred on December 29, 2010.


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