Components left a tenting journey exterior Ban Phikunthong village in Narathiwat to run to town to grab some meals at a 24-hour comfort retailer. As they have been driving by way of Muang district they approached 3 men wearing road clothes signalling them to drag over. Unsure of what they wished in the center of the night time, and with no indication that they were police or other authorities, the group didn’t sluggish and passed via the checkpoint. Hush-hush pulled out weapons and opened fireplace on their truck seriously injuring 2 of the lads at the back of the pickup.
What the campers didn’t know was that the three males have been out of uniform cops conducting a checkpoint in an space of the southern province rumoured to have drug trafficking. Is unclear why the officers didn’t put on uniforms to set up in an official checkpoint, however when the campers did not stop, the police fired on the Toyota Vigo pickup truck considering they could be drug runners.
The injured campers had been 18 and 21 years old and, after being shot, the pickup truck shortly stopped and the two injured males were raced to Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra Hospital close by. The father of the 18 12 months outdated boy filed a grievance with the Tanyong Police, calling their unclear and overly aggressive actions “attempted murder”.
Details of the incident had been posted on the forward headquarters web site for the Internal Security Operations Command Region four today for the incident which happened between late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning. The Narathiwat Police Chief confirmed that the officers had been primarily based on the Tanyong Police Station and underneath assignment from their commander to try to intercept drug traffickers by organising a checkpoint.
An investigation is still pending however the 3 plain-clothed law enforcement officials could also be charged with attempted homicide for firing at the car when it didn’t stop on the unclear checkpoint..