WHILE the severe flooding in northern Nan province started to ease today (Aug. 21) another man drowned in the floodwaters taking the provincial death toll to three while a fourth man died in similarly flooded northern Mae Hong Son province with red flags also raised in Phitsanulok and Phetchabun provinces, TV Channel 7 and
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Third Siam Paragon shooting victim dies
RELATIVES of a 30-year-old Thai woman who has been in coma after being shot in the head and body by a 14-year-old suspect who went on a shooting spree in Siam Paragon mall on Oct. 3 said she died peacefully at 2 a.m. today (Oct. 13), Amarin TV and Sanook.com said. Ms. Penpiwan Mitthampitak,
Read moreDriver in expressway crash that killed 3 persons was intoxicated
A YOUNG man who slammed his new Mercedes Benz sedan into another sedan on the expressway killing three people at around 1 a.m. this morning (Dec. 18) had higher than the legal limit of blood alcohol content, Siam Rath newspaper said. The accident occurred at Si Rat expressway heading for the motorway on the
Read moreDaily Covid death count nears hundred
THAILAND recorded its highest single-day coronavirus fatalities at 98 this morning (July 15), with there also being 9,186 new cases, Siam Rath newspaper said. This takes the cumulative confirmed total since the start of the pandemic to 372,215 and the current wave that began in April 343,352. Today’s fatalities raised the death toll since
Read moreLadakh: China reveals soldier deaths in India border clash
By BBC CHINA has for the first time revealed that four of its soldiers died during a bloody Himalayan border clash with Indian troops in June last year. The men died after fighting “foreign troops” who “crossed into the Chinese border”, said Chinese state media. The skirmish had taken place in the Galwan Valley in
Read moreTwo teenagers die at Pattaya’s ‘Death U-turn’
DUBBED the Death U-turn by the people of Pattaya because of frequent crashes and fatalities, this particular spot in front of Macro South Pattaya lived up to its name again last night (May 29) as two motorcycle-riding teenagers got killed there after they lost balance and were immediately hit by a sedan driven by a
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