{"id":13401,"date":"2019-03-11T14:26:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T06:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13401"},"modified":"2019-03-11T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T07:39:53","slug":"thailand-beefs-up-security-in-southern-provinces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=13401","title":{"rendered":"Thailand beefs up security in southern provinces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BANGKOK, March 11 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;&nbsp;Thailand\u2019s&nbsp;security&nbsp;authorities believe that \u201ca network trying to destroy the&nbsp;government\u2019s confidence\u201d is behind the series of explosions in Satun and Phatthalung provinces on Saturday and Sunday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan said he had&nbsp;instructed the security forces to&nbsp;beef up security in southern Thailand following&nbsp;the incidents that&nbsp;happened&nbsp;last night until early this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the perpetrator(s)&nbsp;behind the bombings, suspected to be from a group or network of groups,&nbsp;had lost their benefits and wanted&nbsp;to destroy the government\u2019s confidence.,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement said Prawit had&nbsp;instructed the authorities to hunt down the perpetrator(s) involved in the explosions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has also instructed the security and intelligence agencies in southern Thailand&nbsp;to monitor the&nbsp;movements of target groups to find out whether they were&nbsp;involved in any of the&nbsp;bombings in Satun and Phatthalung.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the security authorities urged&nbsp; the public to&nbsp;give their fullest cooperation if there were any suspicious objects or&nbsp;strangers in their areas to prevent untoward incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported that at&nbsp; least 10 explosions rocked the turbulent Phatthalung and Satun provinces in southern Thailand between last night and early this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No loss of life was reported but the explosions resulted in damage&nbsp;to buildings and vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&nbsp;NNN-BERNAMA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK, March 11 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212;&nbsp;Thailand\u2019s&nbsp;security&nbsp;authorities believe that \u201ca network trying to destroy the&nbsp;government\u2019s confidence\u201d is behind the series of explosions in Satun and Phatthalung provinces on Saturday and Sunday.&nbsp; In a statement, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Gen Prawit Wongsuwan said he had&nbsp;instructed the security forces to&nbsp;beef up security in southern Thailand following&nbsp;the incidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":13405,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,288],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}