Four members of a gang accused of kidnap were arrested in the South and the Northeast in an operation led by the Crime Suppression Division’s (CSD) special weapons and tactics unit yesterday.
The operation began at 6am yesterday, when 80 members of the Hanuman taskforce were deployed to raid eight targets — three in Yala, four in Narathiwat and one in Khon Kaen.
The raids followed an incident on Sept 5 last year, when a group of armed men abducted a man from a house in Narathiwat’s Rangae district. The victim was held hostage in a house where he was beaten up, leading to a broken rib.
The group called his relatives,…
