Security officials meet with Prawit in Hat Yai

Accompanied by senior officials, Prawit also met ordinary citizens and presided over a ceremony to welcome three repentant insurgent sympathisers who joined the “Pha Khon Klab Ban” (Bringing people home) campaign at the Front Command of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC). 

He was told that 1,097 former sympathisers had participated in the campaign over two months and that about 3,000 fugitives had been reintegrated into society since it was set up in 2012. The campaign provides legal assistance and vocational training to participants.

Meanwhile, an unknown assailant on a motorcycle threw a M26 grenade at a traffic police booth at a railway crossing in Narathiwat’s Rusoh district yesterday. Although the grenade didn’t explode, the subsequent inspection by police and a bomb-disposal team forced three trains to delay their schedules by up to two hours. The incident, which occurred at 10.40am while 10 traffic police were cleaning athe booth area, is suspected to be part of ongoing unrest in the South.