Youths found playing with missile launcher(Pattaya

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Youths hide anti-tank missile launcher near Ambassador City Hotel

 

Ordnance Department conducting urgent enquiries

 

Patcharapol Panrak

Sattahip police are urgently pursuing enquiries as to how two youths managed to acquire an anti-tank missile that they hid near a construction site on Sukhumvit Road on the night of February 1.

 

Police examine the guided missile launcher that two youths somehow managed to obtain and hide on the outskirts of town.

A security guard at the View Talay Marina construction project notified police that at about 1 a.m. two youths in shorts had been seen carrying a long black tube that they hid at the approach to Bannammao Bridge on Sukhumvit Road km 157 before vanishing in the direction of Pattaya City.

The guard waited until morning to check and notify police, because at that time it was too dark to search the area.

Commander Adisak Kaewpirom of the Sattahip Naval Base went with police officers to the scene where they found an anti-tank missile launcher measuring 1.5 meters in length and weighing 25 kg. There was a code number on the side. The officers believe it was made in China, and have been in contact with the Royal Navy Ordnance Department to find out which division has this kind of guided missile in service.

The missile is still perfect for use, and seems to have been well kept. Normally it is accurate over a range of 300-500 meters. The place where it was found is next to the Bannammao canal, which connects to the seashore only 500 meters away from the Ambassador City Jomtien Hotel.