78 Thais die in police trucks
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Thai officials admitted today that at least 78 protesters in their custody were suffocated or crushed to death after being put into trucks following a riot amongst Muslims in Thailand&#39;s troubled far south.
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Eight Thai soldiers are killed in an attack by suspected Muslim rebels in the violence-hit south, the army says.
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PATTANI, Thailand -- Facing harsh denunciation from Islamic leaders across Southeast Asia, Thailand's prime minister defended his security forces yesterday in the deaths of 78 young Muslims in army custody, maintaining troops used a ''soft approach&quot; in quelling a riot.
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At least 78 people died after a riot on Monday in Thailand&#39;s violence-plagued deep south, a Thai military official said here on Tuesday.
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NARATHIWAT, Thailand, Jan. 14 -- Suspected Muslim insurgents ambushed an army patrol in Thailand's restive south Monday, killing all eight soldiers and then beheading one of them, in a rebellion that has entered its fifth year.
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Two more Thai Buddhists have been killed in Muslim-majority southern Thailand, police say, as outrage mounted over the death last week of 85 Muslims, many in military custody.
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At least eight people were killed, including an American and four other foreign tourists, while 13 remained missing after an overloaded speedboat capsized Tuesday off Thailand's Koh Samui, police said.
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Three Muslims are among eight people named by the Thai government to immediately begin an independent probe into the deaths last week of 78 Muslim protestors who died after being piled into trucks by troops.
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TAKBAI, Thailand At least 84 people died after a riot in southern Thailand, many of them crushed and suffocated after they were arrested and packed tightly into trucks, officials said Tuesday.
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Six more people have been killed in Muslim-majority southern Thailand in the last 24 hours, police said on Thursday, amid outrage over the death last week of 85 Muslims, most of them in military custody.
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At least 78 people were suffocated or crushed to death after being arrested and packed into police trucks following a riot in southern Thailand, officials said yesterday.
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Thailand&#39;s government invited foreign diplomats to a special briefing Thursday to explain the grisly deaths of 78 Muslims in police custody, amid rising concern that authorities are using excessive force to quell an Islamic
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PATTANI, Thailand : At least 84 Thai Muslims died -- mainly from suffocation in the back of security force trucks -- after police and troops broke up a violent demonstration in the kingdom&#39;s troubled south, Thai officials said.
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PATTANI, Thailand -- At least 78 Muslim detainees suffocated or were crushed to death after police rounded up 1,300 people and packed them into trucks following a riot in southern Thailand. Islamic leaders accused troops yesterday of overreacting and warned the deaths could worsen sectarian violence.
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BANGKOK will &quot;burn&quot; as revenge for the death by suffocation of 78 Muslim men as they were being transported in Thai Army trucks this week, a group of Muslim militants threatened yesterday.
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Thai government will set up a committee to investigate the deaths of 78 people on crowded trucks following the latest riot in the deep South, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said here on Wednesday.
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Buddhist workers in southern Thailand in revenge for the October deaths of 85 Muslim protesters, police say. to families of the dead protesters, most of whom died of suffocation in army custody.