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‘Boonrod’ plucked out of the Gulf of Thailand, 220 kilometres offshore

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1 week ago

April 16, 2019

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The story of a lucky dog. But how did he get there?

by Nicola Stow via VIRAL PRESS

Workers onboard a Thai oil rig noticed a dog’s head poking above the ripples as she was paddling around the Gulf of Thailand on Friday. The rig was 22o kilometers off the coast of Songkhla. It’s understood the Aspin dog, named Boonrod (Thai for ‘survivor’) by her rescuers, fell from a fishing trawler, according to the Bangkok Post.

Offshore drillers called out to the exhausted dog and she swam towards them, taking refuge among the rusty metal bars of the rig.

The workers then lowered a rope down to Boonrod and pulled her to safety. She stayed on the drilling platform for two nights while a special cage was welded and staff gave her food and water.

Boonrod was finally lifted by crane onto another oil vessel passing through the area last Sunday, which delivered her to vets in Songkhla, southern Thailand.

Khon Vitisak, an oil rig worker, who pulled the animal to safety, says he would like to adopt her if no owner comes forward.

“We just saw her small head but if the ripples were bigger, I think we probably wouldn’t have noticed her at all. We found her trying to swim towards our rig, which is about 220 kilometres from the shore. Thankfully the sea was quite still because the wind was calm.”

“After she made it onto the bars below the rig she didn’t cry or bark at all. We looked for a way to help her and in the end, decided to use the rope to tie around her body to lift her up. When we first took her on board she was depressed and tired from being in the water for a long time.”

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: thesun.co.uk

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Two killed, two injured in Pattani shootings

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7 hours ago

April 26, 2019

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Two people have been killed and two others injured during two separate shootings in Pattani province last night (Thursday).

In Sai Buri district, a 24 year old Narathiwat-based paramilitary ranger volunteer Pathompong Kaewthong and his 22 year old wife Nureehan Dengla, were shot and wounded in Tambon Kadunong while riding home on their motorcycle after shopping at a local market.

Two men on another motorcycle overtook them on Sai Buri-Kapor Road and the passenger shot Pathompong in the head. A stray bullet also hit Nureehan’s right leg.

Police found that Pathompong was on leave and visiting his wife’s hometown – they suspect that the assailants had been monitoring him for a while because he worked for the state military and launched a gun attack on him as part of the ongoing insurgency in the South.

Meanwhile, in Yarang district, a 45 year old ice-cream vendor Rosadee Nidae was shot dead at 6pm after parking his tricycle at the Jeh Bo Ngor Market in Tambon Khao Toom. A stray bullet also hit the knee of a 54 year old bystander.

Police found that the shooter had brazenly walked among the shoppers, then pulled out a gun and shot Rosadee twice before fleeing with an accomplice, who had kept his motorcycle running so they could make a speedy getaway.

Police are trying to establish if the second attack stemmed from the ongoing unrest or from a personal conflict.

SOURCE: The Nation

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Boat carrying a Bangkok school group sinks at Koh Tao pier

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8 hours ago

April 26, 2019

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Boat carrying a Bangkok school group sinks at Koh Tao pier | The Thaiger

A boat carrying up to 40 schoolchildren has sunk after hitting underwater rocks next to a pier in Koh Tao last Monday. Koh Tao is a popular diving destination island in the Gulf of Thailand, north of Koh Samui.

The vessel “Mattha” was carrying around 50 people, including the group from a school in Bangkok on a snorkelling day trip around the nearby islands. But when the boat returned later in the day, the tide was out and it hit rocks around the Songserm Pier on Koh Tao.

The rocks punctured a hole in the boat causing it to start sinking. Around 50 people including pupils, teachers and the boat’s crew fled as the boat started sinking and lurching to startboard .

The vessel was operated by Siam Catamaran Tours.

A police source said the children were ”very fortunate” to get off the boat without injury.

”They were lucky that they were at the pier and they got off quickly. Boats should all have systems to detect the depth of the water so questions need to be asked about why the boat sank in what is a busy pier used every day.”

SOURCE: Viral Press

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Five metre king cobra caught in Trang – VIDEO

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11 hours ago

April 26, 2019

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PHOTOS/VIDEO: Trang DDPM (Kantang) / Rak Trang News / Maetee Mueangkaew

A five metre king cobra has been caught in Trang, in southern Thailand, yesterday.

74 year old Amphon Srisombat, a resident at a house in Kantang district, Trang, called staff at the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation to explain that the king cobra was inside her house.

A DDPM crew took a short time to catch the king cobra saying that it wasn’t ‘fierce’ and was easily caught. The king cobra weighed about 10 kilograms. The cobra will be released back to a forest away from suburban areas.