Southern insurgents have turned to the use of rented, instead of stolen cars for the construction of car bombs, according to Lt-Gen Santi Sakuntanark, commander of the southern-based Fourth Army Region on Friday.
He disclosed that the vehicle used as a car bomb, which was detonated yesterday on the access road to a fishing pier in Pattani’s Mueang district, was rented from a man in Bang Pla Ma district of Suphan Buri, with a Songkhla license plate.
The commander claimed that the heightened security, imposed in the commercial areas of Thailand’s three southern provinces, including security officials being on the lookout for stolen cars, has made it difficult for insurgents to use stolen vehicles to make car bombs, forcing them to look for new sources.
Meanwhile, an informed source said that the three explosions in Pattani yesterday, which injured a passer-by, were in retaliation for the killing of three insurgents in Yala province this week.
Photo: File photo shows car bomb in Yala
