Crime, Courts, Calamity

YALA — A 5-kilogram mine exploded and sheard off a rubber farmer’s right foot Monday morning in Yala province.

BANGKOK — Police on Monday said a two-year-old boy was poisoned by his mother in a plot to swindle donations from his illness.

KOH TAO — Police on Koh Tao said Tuesday that CCTV footage shows a 30-year-old Belgian tourist buying a ferry ticket for the mainland in what they describe as the last known footage of her alive.

BANGKOK — A bus was engulfed by raging flames after it pulled up to a downtown shopping mall Tuesday morning.

NAKHON PHANOM — A senior-ranking policeman’s career came to an ignominious end when he was caught in a drug bust on Tuesday, just five months before his scheduled retirement.

PHANG NGA — Five suspects accused of participating in serial gang rapes of a teen girl in the southern province of Phang Nga were behind bars Monday as police said some of her attackers may have paid to participate.

KHON KAEN — An appeal court in the northeast on Tuesday upheld a two-month jail term for a former mayor who forced a reporter to strip in retaliation for a news story he didn’t like.

BANGKOK — Police on Thursday said they will rule the death of a Dutch man who fell from a woman’s Bangkok condominium a suicide.

CHONBURI — Two motorcyclists threw homemade bombs at a group of tourists in the resort town of Pattaya early this morning, police say.

BANGKOK — Health minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Monday doubled down on his threat to ban coronavirus patients who broke the law from receiving free medical treatment, despite its potential breach of the Thai Constitution.