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No terrorist threat detected in and around Bangkok: police

Xinhua, October 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

No terrorist threat has been detected in and around the Thai capital for the time being, said deputy police chief Pol Gen Srivarah Rangsipramanakul on Friday.

Police have thoroughly searched for possible clandestine plots to plant bombs at any spot in Bangkok and its outlying areas between Oct. 25 and Oct 30 following earlier tip-offs about car-bombs and sabotages.

The overall situation has remained normal so far, the deputy police chief said.

However, the police and other authorities will remain on full alert for possibilities of bombing and other terrorist attacks, Pol Gen Srivarah said.

Meanwhile, the deputy police chief dismissed unconfirmed news reports that as many as 44 members of the so-called P.Y.N.S. activist group based in the compound of Ramkhamhaeng University have been arrested and detained on suspected terrorist charges though several youngsters were recently arrested on similar charges during a police raid at an apartment unit in the neighborhood of the university campus in Bangkok.

The detained suspects were not found to have been connected with the PYNS group as earlier alleged, he said.

Those initials stand for Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkla, the names of Thailand's turbulent Deep South provinces. Endit