Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he is not worried by bombings in the deep South during his visit to the region as four previous bids to assassinate him had failed to scare him.Thaksin was responding to a series of bombings in Yala province on Saturday night and at Narathiwat airport in Narathiwat province on Sunday morning when his plane was about to land.
Precipitation will end early this morning, but clouds will linger much of the day and very cold air will ease into the state from the north. Many North Alabama communities will see falling temperatures with a chilly north breeze.
An intense blast of cold air shattered records in the central United States this week with temperatures up to 50 degrees below average. The bitter cold is pushing into the South and East to end the week.
It was his first visit to the deep South in about two decades. Thaksin said he received a warm welcome. Apart from Narathiwat, Thaksin was also scheduled to visit adjacent Pattani and Yala provinces.
Narathiwat: Seven people were injured on Friday evening in a bomb attack near a territorial defence unit in Wang district, local officials said yesterday. The bomb, hidden in a three-wheeled ...