Bringing back local elections after more than seven years comes with a renewed sense of fear in Nakhon Nayok where a tambon administrative organisation (TAO) head was wounded and his deputy killed in a recent attack.
On the evening of Feb 14, at least two gunmen using assault weapons attacked a van carrying TAO members in Nakhon Nayok, in the country’s Central Plains.
The deputy chairman of Bang Somboon TAO, Somchai Muang-kard, 63, and his driver, Watchara Nutdaeng, 52, were killed in the attack. TAO chairman Yannakorn Thorprayoon, 44, who was also travelling in the van, was shot…