Cargo train damaged in bomb explosion in Narathiwat
Cargo train damaged in bomb explosion in Narathiwat
No one was injured in a bomb and gunshot attack on a passenger train used to transport agricultural products to Bangkok
Investigators are inspecting damage to a car on a train carrying fruit and agricultural produce from the south to Bangkok following a bomb attack in Narathiwat on Saturday afternoon. No one was hurt. (Photo: Thailand State Railways Union Facebook page @thaisrut)
A bomb exploded as a train carrying agricultural products approached a station in Narathiwat early Saturday afternoon. Shots were fired at a car, but no one was injured. The train was damaged.
The attack occurred at 12:25 p.m. when train No. 986 on the Sungai Kolok-Bangkok route was about one kilometer from Tanyongmas station in Rangae district, Thai media reported.
The converted passenger train had left Sungai Kolok on Saturday to transport fruits, agricultural products and parcels from the deep south to Bangkok as part of measures to alleviate hardship for those affected by travel restrictions and control measures. Covid-19.
Shortly after the bomb exploded near Tanyongmas station, shots were fired at the fifth car, where employees of the State Railway of Thailand (SRT) were located. Fortunately, all of them escaped unscathed.
The attack, suspected of being the work of insurgents from the south, prompted the SRT to indefinitely suspend the special freight train service.
The service, intended to help farmers and others during harvest season, began Thursday and was expected to run until October 1.
In a related development, a local leader was seriously injured in a bomb attack near a mosque in Muang district of Yala on Saturday.
The bomb exploded at 10:42 a.m. when a van arrived at the entrance to Tambon Sateng Mosque, police said.
The driver, later identified as Maeyae Saeloh, 59, a kamnan of tambon Samakki in the Ruesord district of Narathiwat, was seriously injured. He was rushed to Yala hospital.
A van burns after a bomb exploded at the entrance to a mosque in Muang district in Yala on Saturday. The driver, a local leader from Narathiwat, was seriously injured. (Photo: Abdallah Benjakat)
A bullet hole is seen in the wagon of a train carrying agricultural products from the South to Bangkok following an attack in Narathiwat on Saturday. (Photo: Facebook page @thaisrut)