Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin hosted an pressing assembly immediately with senior safety officers, together with performing nationwide police chief Pol Gen Kittarat Panphet, following this morning’s assaults in three southernmost provinces.
He assigned Kittarat to go to the areas immediately to assemble info in regards to the assaults within the suburbs of Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani provinces.
Srettha additionally ordered the army and the police to beef up safety in any respect authorities places of work in these provinces. Kittarat advised reporters after the assembly that he was scheduled to fly to Hat Yai in Songkhla province earlier than touring to the deep south to carry talks with native police on measures to guard authorities places of work and forestall future assaults.
In the meantime, Lt. Gen. Santi Sakuntanark, commander of the Fourth Military Area, mentioned that the arson assaults seem to not have been supposed to hurt individuals however to break financial targets positioned within the suburbs of the provinces.
Suspected insurgents launched coordinated theft and arson assaults on a number of targets, together with 7-11 comfort shops, crushing vegetation, and cell towers.
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Santi mentioned that the insurgents believed they’d get hold of extra deserves in the event that they attacked through the holy month of Ramadan.
