Bernama (Malaysia)
GOLOK (Southern Thailand), Wed.: Two bombs exploded at the Malaysia-Thailand checkpoint this morning, destroying three new posts belonged to the Thai immigration at the Golok bridge.
The first bomb went off at 6.30am local time (7.30am Malaysian time), destroying three of the six posts.
Fifteen minutes later, another bomb exploded nearby, forcing the closure of the busy bridge which connects Golok in Thailand and Rantau Panjang in Kelantan, Malaysia.
Thai deputy consul-general in Malaysia, Niran Boonjit, told Bernama that no one was injured in the incident.
“The posts will be used by the immigration department as temporary office and have not started operations yet. There was nobody near the place when the explosions occurred,” he said.
A Thai police spokesman told Bernama in Bangkok that both bombs, weighing one and two kilogrammes, were triggered using digital watches.
Members of the media were not allowed near the scene.
The bridge, which is opened daily between 6am and 10pm, had been reopened and the situation returned to normal.
“The situation is under control. Everything is back to normal at the entry gate,” Niran said.
A worker at the checkpoint, Mokhtar Che Mat, said workers, fearing for their safety, ran helter-skelter for cover upon hearing the explosions.
A tour guide, Shaari Jusoh, said the loud explosions could he heard in Rantau Panjang, some 300 metres away.
Kelantan police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi, when contacted, said police were on the alert and had taken steps to ensure safety at the border.
He reminded Malaysians to be extra careful when visiting restive southern Thailand provinces.
More than 3,500 people have died since suspected separatists resumed their armed campaign to seek independence for the three Muslim-majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.
The first bomb went off at 6.30am local time (7.30am Malaysian time), destroying three of the six posts.
Fifteen minutes later, another bomb exploded nearby, forcing the closure of the busy bridge which connects Golok in Thailand and Rantau Panjang in Kelantan, Malaysia.
Thai deputy consul-general in Malaysia, Niran Boonjit, told Bernama that no one was injured in the incident.
“The posts will be used by the immigration department as temporary office and have not started operations yet. There was nobody near the place when the explosions occurred,” he said.
A Thai police spokesman told Bernama in Bangkok that both bombs, weighing one and two kilogrammes, were triggered using digital watches.
Members of the media were not allowed near the scene.
The bridge, which is opened daily between 6am and 10pm, had been reopened and the situation returned to normal.
“The situation is under control. Everything is back to normal at the entry gate,” Niran said.
A worker at the checkpoint, Mokhtar Che Mat, said workers, fearing for their safety, ran helter-skelter for cover upon hearing the explosions.
A tour guide, Shaari Jusoh, said the loud explosions could he heard in Rantau Panjang, some 300 metres away.
Kelantan police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi, when contacted, said police were on the alert and had taken steps to ensure safety at the border.
He reminded Malaysians to be extra careful when visiting restive southern Thailand provinces.
More than 3,500 people have died since suspected separatists resumed their armed campaign to seek independence for the three Muslim-majority provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala.
6 comments:
Siems bandit will sweep out of the planet soon.
BOMBS OVER THAILAND .................BLOW THEM UP
Ce qui me plait avec la Thailande on peut prévoir des choses par contre , personne je dis personne de tous ces prétendus Khmers oversea parlent de la colonisation déguisée venant de l'est du pays la preuve la vraie fausse reine mere du roi du cambodge. Elle est plus venimeuse que POURS VEK. Qu'on m'apporte LES PREUVES qui qui enfin c'est le Marie Antoinette de ce pays SMER SMIOM PRASIR SUN NOV SAIGAN
As long as you swallow the Malysian teritoty, the muslim Malaysians in the 3 Southern provinces will make you into trouble untill they will be liberated from your colonization.
The Muslim Malaysians in that region don’t get along with Thai because they are being abused, discriminated and denied works sometimes. It is going to be a dilemma for Thai gov’t to solve this.
Bravo! Bravo! brother in YALA keep up! BANGKOK IS DOOM! you will be free again...keep up the fight!!
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