TWO more motorcycles are believed to have been deliberately set alight on Wednesday - the first at Hin Tang, on the coast between Kalim and Kamala, and the second at the Tin Mine Museum in Kathu.


PHUKET: Four motorcycles met a fiery end yesterday in a suspicious blaze in the carpark above Phuket's Laem Singh beach.

Flames engulfed rubber and metal and attracted the interest of sightseeing tourists along Phuket's west coast road about 4pm.

Swimmers at the beach, which has a steep stairs descent to the sea, returned to see a pall of smoke and a large area blackened by the blaze.

Tongbai Nanchaiwien, who works as a masseuse at Laem Singh, rushed upstairs when told of the fire to find that her motorcycle was among those destroyed.

''It was shocking,'' she told Phuketwan. ''We've never seen anything like it.''

Laem Singh, once one of Phuket's most pleasant sheltered bays, has been subjected to heightened commercial activity. Jet-skis operate there, even though Laem Singh is not one of the beaches from which operators are entitled to work.

A fee is charged for parking at the carpark, although it's not transparent as to what happens to the money. Surrounding land remains subject to a controversy over whether its available for development.

Laem Singh is south of the popular Surin beach. Police have begun an investigation.