Thai-Muslims in deep South assist flood victims in central Thailand

PATTANI, November 16 (TNA) - Thai Muslims in the far South have delivered relief packs to assist flood victims in central Thailand, including those in Greater Bangkok. The Office of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC), Region 4, located at the Royal Thai Army's Sirindhorn Camp in Yarang District of Thailand's southernmost Pattani Province, on Wednesday released a 21-truck caravan of the relief assistance donated by the Thai Muslims in Pattani and nearby Narathiwat and Yala Provinces, comprising dried food and other consumer products, including clean drinking water, to be handed out to the flood victims. According to chief of the ISOC, region 4, public relations centre Colonel Pramote Prom-in, the relief items donated by the Thai Muslim brothers and sisters in the southern border region will be transported by train to Samsen Train Station in Bangkok and will later be distributed to the flood-affected people. The Thai-Muslims in the deep South earlier donated a financial assistance of more than one million baht to the flood victims in central Thailand, through Thai Army Chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha. (TNA)