Suspects confess of involving in shooting motorcade of HM the Queen's close aide : police
Six of 24 suspects arrested in Yala for allegedly involving in the southern violence have confessed that they involved in shooting at a motorcade of a close aide to HM the Queen three months ago, a Yala provincial police said Friday.
Pol Col Chinnawat Maedej said that the six suspects, all of them are youth, admitted during interrogation that they fired at the motorcade of Thanpuying Viraya Chavakul, a close aide to HM the Queen on February 21. Viriya was not injured.On Friday, some 300 Thai Muslims, mostly women and children, continued their protest and blocking a road in Yala for the second day, to demand the authorities to free 24 suspects arrested in connection with the daily violence in the province. Chinnawat reiterated that police could not release the suspects because they had solid evidence that they involved in the attacks in the province. "We could not free them as we have evidence, such as leaflets and weapons, to back up the charges against the suspects," he said. Security authorities have asked religious leaders in the province to help talk to the protesters. All telephone communications were cut off to prevent the situation from escalating, he said. The Nation
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