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The prime minister will also hold a meeting with relevant government agencies at the university’s conference hall to be briefed on the progress of major projects, including the construction of a bridge across the Kolok River and a Sungai Bridge in Narathiwat’s Sungai Kolok district . Orbital railway connecting Songkhla Hat Yai and Sungai Kolok.
The Prime Minister will travel from Narathiwat to Thamavitya Mulniti School in Yala to meet religious leaders and students. After the meeting, she will visit the Coast Guard Pier in Tambon Ru Samilae, Mueang District, Pattani Province, to contact fishing boat operators.
While in Pattani, she will also hear about the progress of the Pattani coastal waterway dredging project and the province’s marina construction project.
Jirayuth said the prime minister will preside over a ceremony at the Pattani Government Hall to issue soft loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in the three southern border provinces. She is expected to return to Bangkok that evening.
Security will be stepped up during the Prime Minister’s visit to the restive Deep South following two recent bomb attacks on Monday and Tuesday.
On Tuesday, two Border Patrol police officers who also taught at a school in Narathiwat province’s Si Sakhon district were killed when a homemade bomb detonated in their pickup truck on their way to school.
On Monday morning, rebels detonated a homemade bomb hidden in a motorcycle near the police station in Mueang district in Pattani province, injuring a Malaysian tourist and nine Thai police and defense volunteers.
According to statistics from the Royal Thai Police Forward Command, between 2012 and 2024, insurgents carried out a total of 80 “motorcycle bomb” attacks. The specific circumstances of the attack are as follows:
- 2012-2013: 18 bombs
- 2014: 21 bombs
- 2015: 8 bombs
- 2016: 13 bombs
- 2017: 7 bombs
- 2018: 5 bombs
- 2019: 2 bombs
- 2020: 2 bombs
- 2021: 1 bomb
- 2022: 1 bomb
- 2023: None
- 2024: 2 bombs
