22 October 2023 at 4:00 p.m.
NARATHIWAT: According to police, alleged insurgents carried out a series of coordinated attacks in Tak Bai region of this southwestern border province first yesterday.
According to Pol Lt Col Jarukit Sridech, acting chief of Tak Bai station, who was alerted at 1.30 am, an improvised explosive device( IED ), assembled inside a fire extinguisher cylinder, was detonated outside the gold shop in tambon Chehe, damaging the front of the shop. No one was harmed, he continued.
A security checkpoint, roughly 50 meters from the golden shop, was also the scene of gunfire, according to him.
Seven of the soldiers stationed there responded by firing up at the intruders, sparking a gunfight that lasted for more than 30 minutes. After forces arrived, the militants fled into a nearby bush. According to the authorities, four officers officers suffered minor injuries.
A power shaft that had been destroyed by a roadside attack roughly 200 meters from the checkpoint was reported to the officers later. On the other side of the street, they also found an explosive system hidden beneath a shaft. When two more IEDs were discovered yesterday night along a nearby path in tambon Chehe, the villagers called the police. Government cordoned off the neighborhood.
Later, Tak Bai’s tambon Khosit attack on the side of the road was reported to the officers. Ten power poles collapsed as a result of the explosion, briefly obstructing traffic.
Acting Muno police chief Pol Col Direk Chomyong reported two incidents yesterday morning in the Sungai Kolok city of Narathiwat’s tambon muno. Two power poles were damaged by a homemade bomb that was detonated there, and an explosive device that had been concealed beneath another pole was discovered. The upcoming 19th celebration of the Tak Bai massacre in 2004 is thought to have been the catalyst for the situations.