PUBLISHED : 6 Aug 2023 at 08:36
NARATHIWAT: Authorities cordoned off the area around a car bomb explosion near a police base in Sungai Kolok district of this deep South province after an explosion on Saturday night. No casualties were reported.
The blast occurred at Orakan intersection near a railway track and the 9313 ad hoc police base at about 8pm.
The bomb was placed in a car that was parked in the rain at the intersection. The driver of the car hurriedly got out of the vehicle, jumped onto a motorcycle that was waiting beside the car and left the scene a few minutes before the blast.
After the explosion, authorities found debris of the car scattered around a radius of about 100 metres, including the vehicle’s licence plates.
Authorities closed off the area pending examination by a bomb squad and forensic police.