News from Thailand – Thursday, April 16, 2015
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News from Thailand – Thursday, April 16, 2015
The Nation continues its coverage of last Friday's Koh Samui bombing today. Two senior police officers claim that former politicians are involved in the attack. An indication would be that these politicians, who are not mentioned by name, visited Surat Thani province shortly before the attack and still have a lot of influence in the area: http://goo.gl/6z4xQY
Bangkok Post opens with the headline that the chief of police Somyot Pumpanmuang does not rule out that the bomb attack on Koh Samui is politically motivated. According to him, some well-known southern politicians are suspected of involvement. There would be evidence for that. This puts the earlier theory that there are links with extremists in the south into question. The attack was not the work of the southern resistance. The investigation takes into account the following theories: The extremists in the south are responsible, the attack is related to a conflict between the mall's management and fired employees, there is a political act possibly related to the two recent attacks in Bangkok: http://goo.gl/Ey2PPm
– The bomb attack has negative consequences for tourism on Koh Samui, both the number of domestic and foreign tourists is decreasing. A clothing seller says he closed his business near the beach because the customers, mainly foreigners, stayed away. "It can take months, or even years, to recover," he says: http://goo.gl/hvdWud
– Two Chinese tourists died and another was seriously injured when they were hit by a car in Hua Hin, the police said on Wednesday evening. The tourists are said to have been hit by the car, which was driving too fast, as it tried to cross Phetkasem Road. The driver (56) has been arrested for questioning: http://goo.gl/wAIxO
– A 33-year-old Thai woman from Roi-Et, who worked in a bar in Chiang Mai, was severely assaulted and died on Monday evening. Her body was found in a hotel room on Tuesday. She had injuries to her face and intimate parts. She would have been beaten with a broken bottle. According to witnesses, she went to a bar where foreigners come on Monday night. There she met an unknown man with whom she went to a hotel room. Police hope to be able to track down the man on the basis of CCTV footage: http://goo.gl/B05bH1
– The final balance of the seven dangerous days on the road during Songkran is 364 dead and 3.559 injured: http://goo.gl/YjV8SN
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