One hurt as chopper makes hard landing
An internal security officer was slightly injured when a military helicopter he was travelling in made an emergency landing in a canal in Songkhla’s Thepha district yesterday.
The Huey helicopter was on a mission to monitor high voltage electrical towers in several areas of Pattani and Songkhla after scores of bomb blasts were reported overnight in the insurgency-plagued South yesterdat.
The chopper, of Anothai Task Force,attached to the Internal Security Operations Command in Yala,left Inkayuthborihan army camp in Pattani.
It reportedly hit one of the electric towers, prompting its pilots to make an emergency landing in Khlong Saibolayu in Ban Tha Ruedee in tambon Thepha about 10 am.