New year joy: A child playing with a water gun during the annual Songkran celebrations on Khaosan Road in Bangkok. — AFP
Bangkok: Nearly 1,000 road accidents occurred in the first two days of the “Seven Dangerous Days” of Songkran this year.
On Thursday and Friday, 105 people were killed and 1,001 injured in 969 road accidents, said Worawit Techasupakur, an assistant minister to the Tourist and Sport Minister.
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