PM to visit KL for one day
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The Government House website (www.thaigov.go.th) yesterday said Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha's schedule to officially visit Malaysia tomorrow would be a one-day trip.
Among accompanying officials would be General Aksara Kerdphol, chairman of the Army’s advisory board, who was named head of the government’s team tasked with holding peace talks with separatists. The trip is the premier’s fifth to an Asean country following Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam.
In related news, a villager was killed and another villager wounded after suspected insurgents on a motorcycle opened fire at them in Pattani’s Khok Pho district yesterday morning. Theerasak Wiriyabonnyakiat, 51, and Kesaya Meunkota, 29, who were shot in the torso, were rushed to Khok Pho Hospital but Kesaya was pronounced dead later.
