Crime, Courts, Calamity

(8 October) Technicians are working to remove the train carriages involved in a derailment near Chiang Rag station in Pathumthani province.

(27 November) A 4-year-old boy was admitted to hospital in Ayutthaya after he was gored underneath his armpits by a pregnant water buffalo.

(20 December) Police in Angthong province have arrested three men accused of attempting to bring spicy bamboo shoot soup filled with amphetamines into prison.

CHONBURI — Two Cambodian immigrants were killed in a car accident near the Thai-Cambodian border after a Thai police volunteer shot out one of their vehicle's tires.

BANGKOK — A police effort to parade a suspected gunrunner in front of the press corps collapsed today when the suspect shouted that he had been forced into confession by the officers.

(3 October) Transport Minister Chatchart Sittipan has announced a plan to issue free transport cards for low income earners, replacing the existing program under which only a number of buses and trains are free of charge.

(21 January) A woman has been arrested in connection with the drive-by shooting incident at anti-government protest rally site in central Bangkok.

NARATHIWAT — Thai authorities have promised to conduct an impartial investigation into the death of a 14-year-old Muslim boy who was shot by army volunteers in a restive southern border province last week.

BANGKOK — A European tourist was hospitalized after being hit in the head with a beer bottle in Bangkok's historic quarter yesterday afternoon, police say.

KORAT — A football player from a prominent Korat club denied sexually assaulting a 25-year-old university student in her room as alleged.