Crime, Courts, Calamity

BANGKOK — A 25-year-old has been fined for crashing his Ferrari into another car while he was speeding alongside a Porsche on Bangkok-bound highway yesterday.

PHANG NGA — A fisherman in southern Thailand says a police patrol ship opened fire on his boat without provocation in the Andaman Sea last week.

SA KAEO — Members of a teenage motorcycle gang in Sa Kaeo province allegedly hit and killed a police officer who tried to intercept them on Saturday.

KAMPHAENG PHET - A man was gunned down at a snooker lounge in Kamphaeng Phet province after he turned down a challenge from a stranger, police say.

CHONBURI — Police in Pattaya are searching for a vendor who reportedly assaulted a Russian tourist who refused to buy a watch from his stall.

PATTANI — Three suspected insurgents were killed in a heated gunfight with security officers at a religious school in Pattani province today.

CHONBURI — A group of robbers reportedly attacked two Russian tourists who were enjoying a romantic bottle of wine on a helipad in Pattaya early this morning.

PATHUM THANI — Passengers riding a public bus in a Bangkok suburb were forced to evacuate early this morning when nearly a dozen technical students reportedly attacked the vehicle because it was carrying students from a rival school.

CHONBURI — Police in Chonburi province have arrested an Indian national who was convicted in India for a bombing that killed a top politician and seventeen others in 1995.

BANGKOK — Soldiers were forced to assist police in stopping a fight between rival groups of emergency responders in Bangkok early Sunday morning.