Suspicious truck seized in Yala village
Yala police yesterday impounded a stolen pickup truck that has reportedly been used in insurgency attacks in the province and neighbouring Pattani.
People living in Pulasanor village in Raman district alerted police that a suspicious pickup had been abandoned in front of a house in the village.
Police and the bomb squad rushed to the spot but found no bombs hidden in the vehicle. The owner of the house, Farid Hama, told police that an unknown man had parked it in front of his house at about 2am.
Initial police investigation revealed that the pickup was stolen from Yala’s Muang district on March 25 and that the licence plate had been changed from Bor Chor 2256 to Bor Chor 3635.
Pol Maj-General Pheera Boonlieng, a Yala police commander, said the pickup was used to deliver ice before being stolen. Police have sought to issue an arrest warrant for Abdul “Pele Dum” Rohhing for the alleged theft, especially since he has reportedly used the vehicle in several attacks in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani.
Pheera said three other stolen pickups were being sought because they could be used in car-bomb attacks.
Meanwhile in Narathiwat’s Si Sakhon district, police confiscated explosives from a house in a mountainous area. Security officials had to spend more than two hours travelling through thick forests and rubber plantations on the mountain to get to the house.
Police raided the house after the chief of the RKK insurgent group, Sof Tohluenoh, 38, was shot dead during a fight with security officials on October 15.
It is believed that members of his group were getting together to plan a revenge attack on the authorities.
However, when the forces reached the house, the alleged RKK members had already fled.
Police refused to reveal the names of the suspects.
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