Thai police reported on Saturday (Dec 14) that two suspects had been taken into custody as authorities continued investigating a bombing in northern Thailand that killed at least three people and left dozens injured.

Thai police reported on Saturday (Dec 14) that two suspects had been taken into custody as authorities continued investigating a bombing in northern Thailand that killed at least three people and left dozens injured. The incident occurred on Friday night at the Red Cross Fair 2024 in Umphang District, Tak Province, which borders Myanmar. A bomb, believed to be a homemade device, was thrown into a crowd near a concert stage where people were enjoying a performance at approximately 11:30 pm (local time). Local police confirmed that at least 48 individuals were injured. Also read: South Korea President Yoon impeached: What happens now? All you need to know Defence Ministry spokesperson Thanathip Sawangsang told The Associated Press that local police had reported a fight between rival groups of men before the explosion. He clarified that there was no indication of a wider security threat. “The forensic evidence showed that the explosive device was a homemade bomb,” Thanathip added. Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra extended her condolences to the victims and their families. She asked security forces and relevant agencies to thoroughly investigate the matter and assist those affected. Government spokesperson Jirayu Houngsap said, “She has tasked the National Police Chief and local security agencies with prioritising care for the injured, conducting detailed investigations, and gathering evidence to apprehend the perpetrators quickly.” Watch: Syria: Watchdog Warns Syria On Chemical Weapons; Israeli Strikes Target Syrian Military Assets × Jirayu added, “Additionally, she has instructed police, administrative officers, and security personnel nationwide to enhance safety measures at festivals during this period. This includes conducting hazardous materials inspections to ensure public safety.” “These measures are to be implemented urgently, with progress reports submitted to the Prime Minister.” (With inputs from agencies)

Thai police detain 2 suspects after blast at Red Cross Fair concert leaves 3 dead, 48 injured

A bomb blast on a roadside in Thailand's troubled deep south has killed three people and injured four others, police said Tuesday. The explosion happened when seven state railway employees were going to fix a section of track in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. The railway track had been earlier damaged in another bomb attack on Saturday.

The latest bomb was hidden around 200 metres from the site of the earlier explosion.

"We believe the bomb had been there since Saturday," said police colonel Chartchai Chanasit. He further said that no other explosive devices were found.

Thailand's south has been in the grip of a conflict since 2004, which has killed more than 7,000 people till now. Rebels in the Muslim-majority region have been battling for greater autonomy from the state.

It is very different from the rest of Thailand where Buddhism is dominant. Thai security forces patrol the area regularly to maintain law and order.&nbsp;

The explosions come after one person died and more than two dozen were wounded last month when a car bomb went off outside police accommodation.

(With inputs from agencies)

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A bomb blast on a roadside in Thailand's troubled deep south has killed three people and injured four others, police said Tuesday. The explosion happened when seven state railway employees were going to fix a section of track in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border.

A bomb blast on a roadside in Thailand's troubled deep south has killed three people and injured four others, police said Tuesday. The explosion happened when seven state railway employees were going to fix a section of track in Songkhla province, near the Malaysian border. The railway track had been earlier damaged in another bomb attack on Saturday. The latest bomb was hidden around 200 metres from the site of the earlier explosion. "We believe the bomb had been there since Saturday," said police colonel Chartchai Chanasit. He further said that no other explosive devices were found. Thailand's south has been in the grip of a conflict since 2004, which has killed more than 7,000 people till now. Rebels in the Muslim-majority region have been battling for greater autonomy from the state. It is very different from the rest of Thailand where Buddhism is dominant. Thai security forces patrol the area regularly to maintain law and order. The explosions come after one person died and more than two dozen were wounded last month when a car bomb went off outside police accommodation. (With inputs from agencies) WATCH WION LIVE HERE You can now write for wionews.com and be a part of the community. Share your stories and opinions with us here.

Bomb blast in southern Thailand kills three, injures four

Thai police discovered unexploded bombs in three top tourist destinations over the weekend as they searched for clues to a wave of blasts that rocked resort areas and killed four last week. 
 
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing spree, which hit seven southern provinces on Thursday and Friday and left dozens wounded, including European tourists.&nbsp;Police said they know who to blame but have yet to reveal a culprit or suspected motive.&nbsp;They have ruled out international terrorist groups, calling the attacks an act of &quot;local sabotage&quot;. 
 
&quot;Our investigation is progressing. We know who was behind it,&quot; deputy national police spokesman Piyapan Pingmuang told AFP, declining to give further details. 
 
Unexploded devices were found and defused on Sunday in two bomb-hit areas, like the upscale beach town of Hua Hin and the popular island of Phuket, according to the interior ministry permanent secretary.&nbsp;&quot;It is likely they were intended to explode at the same time of the previous explosions,&quot; said Grisada Boonrach. 
 
Police said other unexploded devices were found on Saturday in Phang Nga province, which had been struck by bomb blasts and a suspected arson attack the day before. 
 
One man has been arrested over a separate case of arson in Nakhon Si Thammarat province and two men have been held for questioning over the Hua Hin bombings, police said. &nbsp;A junta spokesman confirmed that multiple people have been questioned but stressed it was too early to identify them as suspects. 
 
&quot;It&#39;s just asking questions. They will not be treated as suspects unless the questioning procedure is done and any of them are found to have violated laws,&quot; said Colonel Winthai Suvaree. 
 
Some analysts suggest the assault was the work of Muslim rebels waging a long-running insurgency in Thailand&#39;s southern tip, but Thai officials have rejected that theory. 
 
If the rebels are to blame, it would mark an unprecedented escalation of a 12-year revolt so far confined largely to the border region.&nbsp;The blasts are seen as an affront to a military government that prides itself on having brought some stability to Thailand since its 2014 coup. 
 
The kingdom has been battered by a decade of political unrest, driven by a bitter power struggle between the military-allied elite and populist forces loyal to the ousted democratically elected government.&nbsp;But the violence has not matched the coordinated nature of the latest bombings or targeted tourist towns.&nbsp;The attacks came only days after the junta won a referendum vote on a controversial new charter it drafted. 
 
The document, which critics say will make Thailand less democratic, was approved by 61 per cent of voters but rejected in the north and northeast, strongholds of the ousted government, and in the three insurgency-torn southern provinces. The shadowy southern rebellion has left more than 6,500 people dead since it erupted in 2004. 
 
But the violence rarely makes international headlines or affects Thais outside the conflict zone, a Muslim-majority region annexed more than a century ago.&nbsp;Analysts say the rebels are frustrated over stalled negotiations with the military government. 
 
&quot;It looks like the work of (the insurgents), judging from their kind of arms... it was not aimed to create mass casualties, so that&#39;s very similar to the far south,&quot; Don Pathan, a security analyst and expert on the insurgency, said of last week`s bombings. 
 
But he said the junta would be loath to admit a major expansion of the conflict, since it would signal a significant &quot;policy failure in the 
south&quot;. 
 
A leader of the &quot;Red Shirts&quot;, the grassroots movement supportive of the ousted government and hostile to the junta, expressed concern Sunday his network would be fingered for the attacks.&nbsp;&quot;We have been made victims for things we did not do several times before,&quot; Jatuporn Prompan said in a video posted on Facebook. 
 
The Red Shirts, who hail chiefly from the poor and rural northeast, are fiercely loyal to the powerful Shinawatra family, whose repeated election victories have been undone by two coups and a series of judicial rulings in the past decade. 
 
Their political network has come under heavy surveillance by the military since the 2014 coup.&nbsp;The bombings in top tourist destinations threaten a vital source of income for tropical Thailand.&nbsp;The sector accounts for at least 10 per cent of an economy the military government has struggled to revive.&nbsp; 
 
(AFP)

The devices were found in tourist areas, like the upscale beach town of Hua Hin and the popular island of Phuket, and Phang Nga province

Thai police discovered unexploded bombs in three top tourist destinations over the weekend as they searched for clues to a wave of blasts that rocked resort areas and killed four last week. No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing spree, which hit seven southern provinces on Thursday and Friday and left dozens wounded, including European tourists. Police said they know who to blame but have yet to reveal a culprit or suspected motive. They have ruled out international terrorist groups, calling the attacks an act of "local sabotage". "Our investigation is progressing. We know who was behind it," deputy national police spokesman Piyapan Pingmuang told AFP, declining to give further details. Unexploded devices were found and defused on Sunday in two bomb-hit areas, like the upscale beach town of Hua Hin and the popular island of Phuket, according to the interior ministry permanent secretary. "It is likely they were intended to explode at the same time of the previous explosions," said Grisada Boonrach. Police said other unexploded devices were found on Saturday in Phang Nga province, which had been struck by bomb blasts and a suspected arson attack the day before. One man has been arrested over a separate case of arson in Nakhon Si Thammarat province and two men have been held for questioning over the Hua Hin bombings, police said. A junta spokesman confirmed that multiple people have been questioned but stressed it was too early to identify them as suspects. "It's just asking questions. They will not be treated as suspects unless the questioning procedure is done and any of them are found to have violated laws," said Colonel Winthai Suvaree. Some analysts suggest the assault was the work of Muslim rebels waging a long-running insurgency in Thailand's southern tip, but Thai officials have rejected that theory. If the rebels are to blame, it would mark an unprecedented escalation of a 12-year revolt so far confined largely to the border region. The blasts are seen as an affront to a military government that prides itself on having brought some stability to Thailand since its 2014 coup. The kingdom has been battered by a decade of political unrest, driven by a bitter power struggle between the military-allied elite and populist forces loyal to the ousted democratically elected government. But the violence has not matched the coordinated nature of the latest bombings or targeted tourist towns. The attacks came only days after the junta won a referendum vote on a controversial new charter it drafted. The document, which critics say will make Thailand less democratic, was approved by 61 per cent of voters but rejected in the north and northeast, strongholds of the ousted government, and in the three insurgency-torn southern provinces. The shadowy southern rebellion has left more than 6,500 people dead since it erupted in 2004. But the violence rarely makes international headlines or affects Thais outside the conflict zone, a Muslim-majority region annexed more than a century ago. Analysts say the rebels are frustrated over stalled negotiations with the military government. "It looks like the work of (the insurgents), judging from their kind of arms... it was not aimed to create mass casualties, so that's very similar to the far south," Don Pathan, a security analyst and expert on the insurgency, said of last week`s bombings. But he said the junta would be loath to admit a major expansion of the conflict, since it would signal a significant "policy failure in the south". A leader of the "Red Shirts", the grassroots movement supportive of the ousted government and hostile to the junta, expressed concern Sunday his network would be fingered for the attacks. "We have been made victims for things we did not do several times before," Jatuporn Prompan said in a video posted on Facebook. The Red Shirts, who hail chiefly from the poor and rural northeast, are fiercely loyal to the powerful Shinawatra family, whose repeated election victories have been undone by two coups and a series of judicial rulings in the past decade. Their political network has come under heavy surveillance by the military since the 2014 coup. The bombings in top tourist destinations threaten a vital source of income for tropical Thailand. The sector accounts for at least 10 per cent of an economy the military government has struggled to revive. (AFP)

Unexploded bombs discovered after series of blasts in Thailand

Thailand&#39;s army said today it had detained several people for questioning over a wave of deadly bombings in some of the country&#39;s best-known beach resorts that killed four people and wounded dozens, including tourists. 
 
Last week&#39;s blasts came days after Thais voted to accept a military-backed constitution paving the way for an election at the end of 2017. 
 
No one has claimed responsibility, although police and the government have ruled out ties to foreign groups, linking the bombings to an unspecified domestic issue. Analysts say suspicion would inevitably fall on enemies of the junta aggrieved by the referendum results, or insurgents from Muslim-majority provinces in the south of the predominantly Buddhist country. 
 
Several people are being held at army facilities, but none have been charged, military government spokesman colonel Winthai Suvaree told Reuters. 
 
&quot;Right now Sakkarin has been detained under Article 44 (by military). The arrest warrant is another separate thing (issued by police),&quot; said police chief Chakthip Chaijinda, referring to a suspect detained for arson. He denied another man who has also been arrested was detained in connection with the bombings. 
 
&quot;We have arrested Abdullah following another arrest warrant (from another separate case) from Krabi for which we believe that he has been on the run for several years. Now we have arrested him.&quot; 
 
The legislation gives the military government absolute power to take any steps needed to protect public peace and detain people for up to seven days without a court warrant. Winthai declined to say how many were detained, although rights groups fear the number runs into dozens, but no-one has yet been charged. 
 
Yesterday a deputy national police chief said the attacks were carried out simultaneously by one group on the orders of one person, but gave no further details.&nbsp;Over the weekend authorities defused at least five explosive devices which had failed to detonate. Three bombs went off in the Muslim-majority province of Yala late yesterday, but nobody was injured, police said. 
 
Defence minister Prawit Wongsuwan said last week&#39;s blasts were &quot;definitely&quot; not related to the southern insurgency, although some involved might have come from the region. 
 
Prawit told reporters today that the incident was an extension of the deep south insurgency, and it was possible they could have been hired from there. For more than a decade, Thailand has been divided between populist political forces led by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the royalist and military establishment. 
 
They accuse Thaksin, toppled in a 2006 coup, of corruption and nepotism, charges he rejects. His sister Yingluck, who took power after a 2011 election win, was ousted in a 2014 coup.&nbsp;Fears that Yingluck and Thaksin could be blamed for orchestrating last week&#39;s attacks prompted a denial by their party. 
 
(Reuters)

They are being held at army facilities but none have been charged, a Thailand military government spokesman said

Thailand's army said today it had detained several people for questioning over a wave of deadly bombings in some of the country's best-known beach resorts that killed four people and wounded dozens, including tourists. Last week's blasts came days after Thais voted to accept a military-backed constitution paving the way for an election at the end of 2017. No one has claimed responsibility, although police and the government have ruled out ties to foreign groups, linking the bombings to an unspecified domestic issue. Analysts say suspicion would inevitably fall on enemies of the junta aggrieved by the referendum results, or insurgents from Muslim-majority provinces in the south of the predominantly Buddhist country. Several people are being held at army facilities, but none have been charged, military government spokesman colonel Winthai Suvaree told Reuters. "Right now Sakkarin has been detained under Article 44 (by military). The arrest warrant is another separate thing (issued by police)," said police chief Chakthip Chaijinda, referring to a suspect detained for arson. He denied another man who has also been arrested was detained in connection with the bombings. "We have arrested Abdullah following another arrest warrant (from another separate case) from Krabi for which we believe that he has been on the run for several years. Now we have arrested him." The legislation gives the military government absolute power to take any steps needed to protect public peace and detain people for up to seven days without a court warrant. Winthai declined to say how many were detained, although rights groups fear the number runs into dozens, but no-one has yet been charged. Yesterday a deputy national police chief said the attacks were carried out simultaneously by one group on the orders of one person, but gave no further details. Over the weekend authorities defused at least five explosive devices which had failed to detonate. Three bombs went off in the Muslim-majority province of Yala late yesterday, but nobody was injured, police said. Defence minister Prawit Wongsuwan said last week's blasts were "definitely" not related to the southern insurgency, although some involved might have come from the region. Prawit told reporters today that the incident was an extension of the deep south insurgency, and it was possible they could have been hired from there. For more than a decade, Thailand has been divided between populist political forces led by former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and the royalist and military establishment. They accuse Thaksin, toppled in a 2006 coup, of corruption and nepotism, charges he rejects. His sister Yingluck, who took power after a 2011 election win, was ousted in a 2014 coup. Fears that Yingluck and Thaksin could be blamed for orchestrating last week's attacks prompted a denial by their party. (Reuters)

Thailand detains several people for questioning over deadly blasts