Narathiwat: A perpetrator detonated a bomb that was secretly buried under a road in Narathiwat Province while officers were investigating the incident. There were no injuries or deaths, and it is believed to be the work of a group of violent perpetrators who are trying to kill officers on a daily basis.
According to Thai News Agency, Pol. Col. Direk Chomyong, Deputy Commander of Narathiwat Provincial Police, led EOD officers and relevant units to inspect the incident where a perpetrator detonated a bomb in a pickup truck belonging to a ranger from the 4802nd Ranger Company on the Yaning-Choe Ko Road in the Ban Kuerong area of Cho Airong District, while the military officers and three forces were returning from investigating an incident where perpetrators set fire and destroyed two surveillance cameras belonging to the Cho Airong Police Station on July 12. No one was injured or killed, but the pickup truck was damaged.
From clearing the area, it was found that the perpetrators had dug through the road surface and placed an improvised explosive device in a 20kg picnic gas tank. It was detonated with a battery that had been pulled from an electric cable into the rubber plantation for about 100 metres and hidden there. There was a hole 50cm deep and 1m wide and pieces of the explosive were scattered all over the road and in the thick grass along the side of the road. The officials therefore collected them as evidence.
Later, officials traveled to investigate the scene where the perpetrators set fire and destroyed the CCTV cameras, which was approximately 500 meters from the scene of the explosion. At the first location, officials found a CCTV camera installed on an electric pole by the side of the road that had been set on fire by the perpetrators using a motorcycle tire as fuel and then using a hook to hang it on the CCTV camera.
The second point is the destruction of CCTV cameras, approximately 1 km from the first point. It was found that the perpetrators used a stick to hook the CCTV cameras until the electrical wires connecting the control box to the CCTV cameras broke or fell apart, making the CCTV cameras unusable. It is believed that this was the work of a violent group of members who ambush and kill officers daily.