5 Thai soldiers killed in bomb attack
This image taken from video provided by Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 shows a group of the alleged attackers riding on a back of a black pickup truck before they opened fire and threw pipe bombs at soldiers at a security checkpoint in Narathiwat province, Thailand, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 via AP)
Five Thai soldiers were killed in a shooting and bomb attack at a checkpoint in the country’s insurgency-hit south, the army said, one of the deadliest such incidents in years.
Six civilians were also wounded in the Wednesday evening attack in Narathiwat province, one of three Muslim-majority provinces gripped by a decadeslong separatist insurgency, local officials said.
The public relations department of Narathiwat province said no group had claimed responsibility and no arrests have been made.
