A TRAIN derailed during heavy rains yesterday near Thailand’s coastal city of Hua Hin, killing seven people, including a two-year-old, and injuring 88 others, officials said.

At least eight people - all of them Thais - were reported to have been killed and 54 others injured today, when a train derailed during heavy rains near a popular seaside resort in central Thailand.

THAI police used tear gas to disperse a crowd of several thousand anti-government protesters who were besieging city police headquarters.

Train services in three southern Thai provinces were temporarily halted today following simultaneous bomb explosions on railway tracks in a region stalked by an escalating Muslim insurgency, officials said.

A German tourist has fallen to his death from a moving train inThailand while hanging out of the door in an apparent prank.