BANGKOK: Thai police said on Saturday (April 18) that it had detained 18 foreign tourists for defying the social distancing guidelines stipulated under the emergency decree and for partying at a rented house on Pha-ngan Island, home to the popular full-moon parties in southern Thailand.
Police from Koh Pha-ngan police station in Thailand's Surat Thani province, raided the house after a tip-off from the village head, saying that many foreign tourists were regularly gathering there for drinks and parties.
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