Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
A British tourist has been rescued by officials of the Hat Noppharat Thara Phi-Phi National Park in Krabi province, after he performed a base jump, in contravention of park regulations, and his parachute became entangled on the cliff face.
A 29-year-old homeowner resting inside his house narrowly escaped death when a crane unloading a prefabricated house at a nearby site lost balance, tilted and toppled onto his home in Khon Kaen’s Muang district on Saturday.
A pickup truck partially plunged into a sinkhole on the inbound lanes of the notorious Rama II Road in Samut Sakhon province this morning. The driver was not injured.
Emergency workers and engineers, using two heavy cranes and cutting equipment, managed last night to extract the body of a victim trapped in his crushed car, buried under tonnes of concrete slabs and the steel structure of a fallen crane at the construction site of the Rama II–Samut Sakhon elevated expressway in Samut Sakhon province.
At least 32 passengers on the ill-fated special express train were killed and three others remain unaccounted for after a massive crane from a high-speed rail project collapsed onto the train in Sikhiu district, Nakhon Ratchasima, the Public Health Ministry said yesterday.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said that the tragic crane collapse at a high-speed rail construction site in Nakhon Ratchasima today, in which 22 people lost their lives, must be thoroughly investigated and those responsible held accountable.
At least four people were killed and several others were injured when a construction crane collapsed onto a moving passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province on Tuesday morning.
The death toll from a construction crane collapse onto a passenger train in Nakhon Ratchasima province on Tuesday morning has risen to at least 22, with 55 others injured.
The first forest fire of this year occurred near Erawan National Park in Kanchanaburi province, with clear evidence indicating deliberate forest burning by wildlife hunters.
The strong high pressure system is still covering the northern parts of Thailand and this will cause temperatures in northern, northeastern, central and eastern provinces to fall by another 1-2oC tomorrow, according to the Meteorological Department.
A family of five, including twin girls and a bed-ridden elderly woman, died from smoke inhalation when their two-storey house, in Muang district of Chiang Mai province, caught fire early this morning.
Police in Pathum Thani have recovered human remains from the void above the suspended ceiling of a house in Lam Luk Ka district. They are believed to belong to a Cambodian worker who went missing two years ago.
