NARATHIWAT: Thai police are hunting for two siblings of a well known notorious drug lord in southern Thailand for alleged involvement in last Friday’s bombing attacks in Sungai Golok that claimed five lives and wounded 115.
Narathiwat police chief Maj-Gen Chaithat Intanuchit said Thai police had informed their Malaysian counterparts to be on high alert for the two brothers, one aged 26 and the other 27, as both of them were believed to be in hiding in Malaysia.
He said the suspects had dual nationality, Malaysian and Thai, which made it easy for them to slip in between both countries.
“This was the third attack planned by them and the previous two bombing were also in Sungai Golok in August and September in 2009,” he told Malaysian reporters yesterday.
Police believed the attacks was a retaliation over an anti-narcotic crackdown in southern Thailand where the authorities confiscated drugs, cash, firearms and gold worth 8 million Bath (RM800,000).
Chaithat claimed that Thai police had retrieved a CCTV recording showing the younger brother’s presence in front of the Merlin Hotel in Sungai Golok. — Bernama several minutes prior the attack.