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A suspect was captured on CCTV picking the lock of his cell at Yala’s Bannang Sata Police

The Emergency Situation Administration Committee on Thursday resolved to extend the state of emergency in three southern provinces – Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani – by another three months from September 20 to December 19.

Yala public health officers have been providing Covid-19 vaccine to local residents of Betong district and have now achieved 76 per cent vaccination rate, Worawit Akkarothai, chief of Betong Public Health Office, said on Friday.

Yala’s Betong Airport opening has been delayed because the third wave of Covid-19 infections has affected the licence approval process, Department of Airports director-general Apirat Chaiwongnoi said on Thursday.

Local businesses in Yala’s Betong city are getting ready to greet visitors once flights from Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport start landing in Betong’s new airport from April.

Betong Airport in the southern province of Yala is nearly ready and should open for operations from April, Deputy Transport Minister Thavorn Senniam said on Monday.

Pattani’s 25th Special Infantry 15323 company, which had set up a command centre at Santikaram Temple in Muang district's Pakaharang subdistrict, had to quickly move their tents and redeploy on the road temporarily after 1-metre-high flood waters engulfed the temple situated in a low-lying basin.

Nearly 40,000 households in the deep South have been hit by flash flooding after five days of heavy rain, the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation reported on Friday (January 8).

The Cabinet has agreed to extend the State of Emergency in three Southern provinces – Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani – for another three months, from December 20 to March 19, government deputy spokeswoman Ratchada Thanadirek said on Tuesday.

More than 4,000 tourists visited Yala province’s iconic Ai Yerweng skywalk to enjoy a view of the sea of mist from an altitude of over 600 metres, Anan Boonsamran, chief of Betong district, said on Sunday.

The Royal Gazette announced on its website yesterday (September 15) that the government would extend the state of emergency in three Southern provinces – Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani – for another three months.

Yala residents are still fuming that Betong Airport has not yet solved the problem of its new wall blocking access to locals who need to head to their fruit and rubber tree plantations.