Police make arrest in foiled bombing attempt
Security officers have arrested the man who allegedly made the car bomb that was safely defused in a gas station in Yala’s Raman district on Wednesday night.
Abdullateh Riang, 39, reportedly confessed to making the bomb and also led officers to another two explosives that he had prepared for future attacks.
His arrest followed a 3am ranger-police operation in Ban Bango Puloh in Tambon Khok Sator in Narathiwat’s Rusoh district. The two assembled bombs were hidden in the suspect’s hometown of Tambon Riang in Rusoh, said the head of the 41st Ranger Forces Regiment’s special task unit, Colonel Sitthisak Jenbanjong.
Abdullateh is being held for further interrogation at the Narathiwat 30th Special Task Force base.
His arrest involves an incident on Wednesday when two men wearing facemasks drove a pick-up truck into a gas station in Tambon Kayu Bokoh in Raman and fled on a motorcycle.
The bomb squad later found and defused a 90-kilogram makeshift bomb attached to a 15kg cooking gas cylinder and a communication radio detonator in the truck.
