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Fri, 09/23/2011 - 19:37
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THAI POLICE SEEK M'SIAN POLICE'S ASSISTANCE IN HUNTING BOMBING SUSPECTS
NARATHIWAT, Sept 23 (Bernama) -- Thai police are hunting for two siblings of a well known notorious drug lord in southern Thailand for alleged involvement in last Friday's bombing attacks in Sungai Golok (Golok River) town that claimed five lives and wounded 115 people.
Narathiwat police chief Maj-Gen Chaithat Intanuchit said Thai police had informed their Malaysian counterparts to be on high alert for the two brothers, one aged 26 and the other 27, as both of them were believed to be in hiding in Malaysia.
He said the suspects had dual nationality, Malaysian and Thai, which made it easy for them to slip in between both countries.
"This was the third attack planned by them and the previous two bombing were also in Sungai Golok in August and September in 2009," he told Malaysian reporters through a translator, here Friday.
Police believed the attacks was a retaliation over an anti-narcotic
crackdown in southern Thailand where the authorities confiscated drugs, cash, firearms and gold worth 8 million Bath (RM800,000), three days prior to Friday's bombings.
Chaithat claimed that Thai police had retrieved a close circuit camera recording showing the younger brother's presence in front of the Merlin Hotel in Sungai Golok, several minutes prior the attack.
He said the brothers might be using the same names when hiding in Malaysia and they might also use different a father's name to evade detection.
Narathiwat police chief Maj-Gen Chaithat Intanuchit said Thai police had informed their Malaysian counterparts to be on high alert for the two brothers, one aged 26 and the other 27, as both of them were believed to be in hiding in Malaysia.
He said the suspects had dual nationality, Malaysian and Thai, which made it easy for them to slip in between both countries.
"This was the third attack planned by them and the previous two bombing were also in Sungai Golok in August and September in 2009," he told Malaysian reporters through a translator, here Friday.
Police believed the attacks was a retaliation over an anti-narcotic
crackdown in southern Thailand where the authorities confiscated drugs, cash, firearms and gold worth 8 million Bath (RM800,000), three days prior to Friday's bombings.
Chaithat claimed that Thai police had retrieved a close circuit camera recording showing the younger brother's presence in front of the Merlin Hotel in Sungai Golok, several minutes prior the attack.
He said the brothers might be using the same names when hiding in Malaysia and they might also use different a father's name to evade detection.
