A petrol pump was blown up by suspected insurgents at a PTT petrol station within the southern province of Yala on Saturday evening. There had been no casualties.
Shortly earlier than midnight on Saturday, an explosion was heard at the PTT petrol station by Highway 410 in tambon Thanto, based on Pol Capt Palakorn Srichai. Police were dispatched to the scene to research.
One of the pumps caught hearth, however nobody was damage.
Fire engines rushed to the scene and the blaze was rapidly introduced underneath management. A police examination revealed that a bomb had been laid at the spot. The petrol pump that caught fireplace was destroyed.
The service station was cordoned off to allow members of an explosive ordnance disposal unit to look the world for any other hid devices. None were found. Ingredients arrived on the scene on Sunday morning to gather evidence.
Lt Gen Santi Sakuntanak, 4th Army commander, condemned the Yala terrorist assault, saying it was supposed to undermine efforts to revive the economy and tourism within the South.
He stated that from safety camera footage, the bomb was believed to have been laid by two men who arrived on the petrol station on a motorcycle and fled within the direction of Ban Lae village.
The investigation is constant.
Thailand’s southern provinces within the Pattani region bordering Malaysia have a largely Malay-Muslim population. The area has suffered a decades-long separatist insurgency which has introduced sporadic violence.
A senior member of Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN) – the largest and most powerful insurgent group in the Thai Deep South – said lately that it will be open to autonomy as a substitute of independence, if that is what folks in the area want..