Militant Incidents in Thailand (January 2016)

by | May 26, 2017 | Incident Reports, Thailand Coverage

Geographical distribution

Total casualties

7 fatalities

15 injuries

Militant violence trending
insignificant variations

c

Total Incidents

Pattani Malay Insurgency
(share of total incidents)

%

Breakdown by province

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

Overview of incidents

  1. Jan. 06 – A soldier was killed when a paramilitary patrol was hit in a roadside bomb explosion in the Narathiwat province. [Nat]
  2. Jan. 07 – Militants detonated a bomb an army post in Chanae district of the Narathiwat district. Three soldiers sustained injuries in the blast. [BP]
  3. Jan. 08 – A roadside bomb exploded as an army vehicle passed by in Yala‘s Bannang Sata district. Nobody was hurt in the attack. [BP]
  4. Jan. 12 – A police officer was killed and his colleague was injured when gunmen raked their pickup truck with gunfire in the Saiburi district of the Pattani province. [BP]
  5. Jan. 13 – Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a woman as she was buying food in the Bannang Sata district of the Yala province. [BP & Nat]
  6. Jan. 13 – A roadside bomb exploded as a patrol of defense volunteers passed by in Pattani‘s Maelan district. Three of the volunteers were hurt in the blast. [BP]
  7. Jan. 18 – A defense volunteer and his wife were shot to death by militants at their rubber plantation in the Raman district of the Yala province. [BP & Nat]
  8. Jan. 18 – Terrorists hurled a hand grenade into a restaurant in the Thepa district of the Songkhla province. The assailants subsequently detonated a small bomb outside the building. A woman was killed and seven other people were injured in the attack. [BP]
  9. Jan. 20 – A militant shot and killed a civilian riding his motorcycle in the Mayo district of the Pattani province. No further information was available. [BP]
  10. Jan. 24 – Gunmen opened fire at a paramilitary unit that was on surveillance mission in Narathiwat‘s Rueso district. One soldier was hurt in the incident [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)