Militant Incidents in Thailand (November 2015)

by | May 11, 2017 | Incident Reports, Thailand Coverage

Geographical distribution

Total casualties

6 fatalities

… injuries

Militant violence trending
insignificant variations

c

Total Incidents

Pattani Malay Insurgency
(share of total incidents)

%

Breakdown by province

  • Pattani (4 incidents)
  • Narathiwat (3 incidents)
  • Yala (2 incidents)

Overview of incidents

  1. Nov. 01 – A terrorist shot and killed an Islamic scholar at his grocery shop in the Yarang district of the Pattani province. [BP]
  2. Nov. 01 – A bomb went off at a Thai military outpost in Yala‘s Bannang Sata district. One soldier was injured in the blast. [BP]
  3. Nov. 05 – Gunmen shot and wounded the security guard of a school in Pattani‘s Khokpho district. No further information was available. [BP]
  4. Nov. 06 – Three small bombs went off on a commercial street in the city center of Pattani. A bomb fitted to a motorcycle exploded as security personnel and onlookers gathered at the scene. No one was injured in the blasts. [BP & Nat]
  5. Nov. 12 – A bomb exploded at a booth used by defense volunteers in the Khokpho district of the Pattani province. Four volunteers were killed and four colleagues were injured in the blast. [BP & Nat]
  6. Nov. 13 – Two soldiers were injured when a roadside bomb exploded as a military patrol passed by in the Sungai Kolok district of the Narathiwat province. [BP & Nat]
  7. Nov. 19 – Terrorists opened fire at defense volunteers who were guarding a school in the Yaha district of the Yala province. One of the volunteers was hurt in the attack. [BP]
  8. Nov. 19 – A roadside bomb exploded as a paramilitary pickup truck passed by in Narathiwat‘s Waeng district. Six soldiers were wounded in the blast. [BP]
  9. Nov. 19 – A militant shot and killed an off-duty paramilitary soldier at his rubber plantation in the Sabayoi district of the Songkhla province. [BP]
  10. Nov. 25 – Gunmen opened fire at a police pickup truck in the Rueso district of the Narathiwat province, injuring three officers. [BP]

AFP: Agence France-Presse (France), AP: Associated Press (America), Ber: Bernama (Malaysia), BP: Bangkok Post (Thailand), CNN: Cable News Network (America), KS: Khao Sod (Thailand), MCOT: Mass Communication Organization of Thailand (Thailand), Nat: Nation (Thailand), Reut: Reuters (Britain), TPBS: Thai Public Broadcasting Service (Thailand)