As part of the police investigation into the recent lethal blast in a concession area for bird's nest harvesting overlapping Krabi and Phang Nga provinces, police on Thursday conducted a search of Koh Thalu in Krabi's Ao Luk district and found a sack of bomb-making equipment.

Steel cooking-gas cylinders weighing 15 kilograms or less have been banned in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani and in the Chana, Na Thawi, Saba Yoi and Thepha districts of Songkhla province except with permission from the provincial energy office.