Construction site attacked, village chiefs tied up

PATTANI: An excavator, a road grader and a water truck were damaged after being set on fire by a group of six men in Thung Yang Daeng district early yesterday, police said.

The attack preceded two other incidents of unrest in the province and another in Songkhla yesterday.

Pol Maj Withaya Suthirak, a Thung Yang Daeng police investigator, said the vehicles were set on fire about 1.40am. The six men arrived on three motorcycles at a work site at Moo 1 village in tambon Nam Dam.

The site was set up by Porn Kaew Construction Company, which had been contracted to repair roads in tambon Nam Dam by the Transport Ministry’s Department of Rural Roads. The repair work began in December.

On arrival, the men forced two assistant village chiefs, Buraheng Yama and Manusi Chewae, to lie on the ground and tied their hands behind their backs. They then poured fuel on a water…