Fireworks erupting over downtown Bangkok during New Year's celebrations on January 1, 2020. Some 100 000 people gathered to welcome the new decade. Death toll over the past five days of New Year holiday has risen to 256 in 2,529 road accident cases, said in a report released on Wednesday (Jan 1) by the Department for Prevention and Mitigation of Public Disasters (DDPM). - ANN
BANGKOK: Death toll over the past five days of New Year holiday has risen to 256 in 2,529 road accident cases, said in a report released on Wednesday (Jan 1) by the Department for Prevention and Mitigation of Public Disasters (DDPM).
A total of 42 people died on New Year's Eve and 567 others were injured, bringing the total number of injured in the 5 days New Year holiday to 2,588, said DDPM.
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