Crime, Courts, Calamity

CHONBURI - A bag snatcher in the resort town of Pattaya robbed a Chinese tourist on her last day in Thailand this morning, police say.

BANGKOK - Three cleaning works were injured yesterday by homemade bombs that were hidden inside a garbage bag in a suburb of Bangkok.

SAMUI (DPA) - Seven people were injured late on Friday when a car bomb went off in the car park of the Central Festival shopping mall on the Thai island of Samui, 700 kilometers (435 miles) south of the capital, Bangkok.

CHONBURI — A national park ranger was shot dead in a revenge attack by the father of an illegal wildlife poacher in Chonburi province today, police say.

CHONBURI — An Indian tourist was reportedly beaten unconscious and robbed by a group of Thai teenagers in the resort town of Pattaya early this morning.

CHONBURI — Three Thai men are under arrest for beating a British tourist who they say sexually harassed a woman in the resort town of Pattaya last week.

PATTANI — The four men shot dead by soldiers during a raid in the restive province of Pattani last month had no links to the local Islamic insurgency, an investigative committee ruled in a report released today.

CHUMPHON — Unidentified gunmen shot two Burmese men and stole the 52,000 baht lottery winnings they was carrying in Chumpon province, police say.

BANGKOK — The firearms allegedly confiscated from suspected militants during a raid in the insurgency-plagued province of Pattani were not used in any previous shooting attacks in the region, forensic tests revealed today.

PATTANI — Five homemade bombs exploded almost simultaneously last night in the southern border province of Pattani, a week after a controversial military raid in the province left four local residents dead.