SUNGAI KOLOK, THAILAND: For passengers on the 12:33 train from Thai town of Hat Yai to Sungai Kolok, god and good luck are touchstones for survival.
So far this year the railway, which cuts through Thailand’s insurgency-riddled‘Deep South’, has been blown up three times by Malay-Muslim separatist rebels.
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