Two police officers were killed and three others injured after officers came under gunfire while attempting to arrest drug offenders at a palm plantation in Narathiwat yesterday, August 2. The Narathiwat police shooting occurred when officers from Tak Bai Police Station raided a small cottage in a palm plantation in the Praiwan subdistrict of Tak Bai district following a tip-off that drug offenders were using the location as a hideout. All five officers were initially taken to Tak Bai Hospital before the injured personnel were transferred to Narathiwat Ratchanakarin Hospital for further treatment. During the operation, officers arrested three other suspects at the cottage. In April of the same year, a police officer in Loei was fatally shot by a suspected drug offender.