george Posted September 9, 2006 Share Posted September 9, 2006 Fear of attacks boosts Hat Yai alert SONGKHLA: -- Security has been heightened in Hat Yai, the biggest commercial centre in southern Thailand, following intelligence warnings of insurgent attacks expected between September 16 and 20, police said. The intelligence agencies warned of attacks during the anniversary of the founding of the Pattani Islamic Mujahideen Movement. Hat Yai is the main city of Songkhla province, which borders Pattani and Yala, two of the predominantly Muslim southern provinces plagued with violence for nearly three years. A combined force from the Hat Yai district police station and officers from the Royal Thai Police Special Operations Force on Thursday inspected locations vulnerable to insurgency, including the city's busy railway station, where security is being stepped up, they said. Luggage and other belongings of passengers travelling to and from the three southernmost border provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat, are being thoroughly checked, Thai police said. Close circuit cameras have been installed at all "vulnerable" locations at the station in order to detect suspicious passengers and objects, they added. -- Agencies 2006-09-09 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaising Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Just returned from my southern road trip ( Exclude the three most southern provinces ) So far so good without facing any untoward event in Hatyai. Drove pass hatyai railway station and the security look tight or else everything look fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 Just got a phone-call, from family in Hat-Yai, to say they have had 3 bombs this evening. One was at/near Central Department Store, other two in the main shopping/tourist-area. Hope everybody is OK down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Posted September 16, 2006 Share Posted September 16, 2006 UPDATE The 11pm TV-News reports 4-dead and 60+ injured. Further bombs, including one at Big-C, failed to explode when the police cut the phone-network so that the detonation-signals could not be sent. Wee Done - the boys in brown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxexile Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 (edited) thai radio news last night reported that a canadian tourist was one of the dead. these bombing have been widely reported in the international press websites , but only minimal reporting on the thai news websites. Edited September 17, 2006 by taxexile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timber Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 There is a write up in the bangkokpost bangkokpost.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timber Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Update Five dead 79 injured Most of the injured thai and Malaysian night shoppers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timber Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 UPDATE: 5 dead, dozens hurt in Hat Yai bombs Hat Yai Six bombs exploded off in southernl Hat Yai town of Songkhla at about 9.15 pm Saturday Police said the bombing wave killed at least 3 persons and wounded 79. Reports from the scene said five were dead including a Western tourist. The wounded included Malaysians, visiting their favourite foreign destination. Most of the victims were Thai and Malaysian night shoppers. Police said the blasts went off at busy shopping spots near Odean shopping centre, Lee Gardens Hotel, Big C Supercenter and a restaurant in the business district. Of the two killed, one is a Canadian, who could only be indentified as Mr Daniel and the other is a woman, whose name could not yet be identified. The Fourth Army refused to say who were responsible for the attacks, or whether it was linked to the muslim militants. It said its bomb disposal units were assisting the local police in clearing the scenes and would only offer comments when more evidence was gathered. Earlier, Thai Army Commander Sonthi Boonyaratkalin had ordered military personnel in the deep South to be on high alert from Saturday through Wednesday, after reports of possible attacks by the Gerakan Mujahidin Islam Pattani (GMIP), an offshoot of the southern militant group Gerakan Mujahidin Pattani (GMP), to mark its anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhys Posted September 21, 2006 Share Posted September 21, 2006 Darm.. I trust the situation stablizes.. is the Import / Export shop still open at ODEN MALL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DivinGuy Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 Has anyone found a list of victims of the most recent bombing? My Thai tutor and her American husband were in Hat Yai at the time, and I haven't been able to contact them since. I read Thai well enough to find her name in a list, but not well enough to read a Thai newspaper. Thanks in advance for any help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 (edited) I live in Hat Yai.... 1st bomb: Odeon shopping center 2nd bomb: in front of Deep wonder Bar (tuc tuc bomb) which is on the walk way from Odeon 3d Bomb: between Brown sugar bar and cherry massage (motorbike Bomb) which is 200 meter from the 1st bomb. 4th Bomb: Diana shopping center. The canadian young man who died unluckily because of curiosity (after the 1st explosion, many people -me included- sitting in a bar/restaurant nearby walked in direction of the first explosion to see what happened) was an english teacher in a school in Hat Yai. He was burried in Hat Yai last saturday... The police did a very good job as they were present 30 seconds after the first detonation, as well as the ambulance, the firemen and the TV... Edited September 27, 2006 by Amir Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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