BANGKOK, 18 August 2012 – The government has ordered security forces in violence-plagued southern border area to step up surveillance measures around all state offices.
Deputy Prime Minister General Yuthasak Sasiprapa said that the Thursday bomb attack in front of the Panare District Office in Pattani Province was intended as a symbolic act of violence during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
General Yuthasak said that the blast did not seem to be aiming at taking lives or property damages, anyhow.
In any case, the Deputy Prime Minister has urged the Army Region4 Commander to instruct all security officers to step up the monitoring of vehicles entering all state grounds in the far South.
He stated that the inspection of all vehicles is essential in the prevention of more blasts.
