SOUTHERN THAILAND — Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani attack teams detonated large improvised explosive devices at PTT petrol stations and adjacent 7-Eleven convenience stores across ten districts in Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat provinces in southern Thailand between 00:50 and 01:30 on January 11, 2026. Five civilians and one policeman suffered minor injuries.

The petrol stations were owned by the state-owned PTT corporation, and the adjacent 7-Eleven convenience stores by the Charoen Pokphand Group. Before detonating the devices, the attack teams ordered staff and customers to evacuate the convenience stores and fired into the air to avoid civilian casualties.

The January 11 operation involved extensive logistical and organizational coordination, with around ten fighters per attack team and several hundred operatives mobilized in total. Only a handful of senior commanders were aware of the entire plan.

Since early 2026, the group's mostly part-time, village-based cells have conducted region-wide coordinated operations and ambushes. The military wing of Barisan Revolusi Nasional Melayu Patani uses bombings, drive-by shootings, targeted killings and arson sprees as its staple tactics. In recent years, insurgents have carried out overnight arson attacks targeting roadside CCTV cameras across one or two districts at a time. In recent months, attack teams have repeatedly torched heavy-duty wheeled vehicles at road construction sites.

The insurgency in southern Thailand began in January 2004 as a secessionist revolt in the Malay-Muslim majority provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and parts of Songkhla. More than 80,000 Thai security personnel are deployed across the insurgency-affected southern provinces. Since 2013, Malaysia has facilitated an on-again/off-again peace process for the conflict.