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    Man pays a heavy price for trying to make peace in Chanthaburi

    An armed clash between two youth gangs in Chanthaburi province on Tuesday ended when a man who tried to intervene got caught in the crossfire.


    Early on Tuesday, police responded to calls and showed up at the shooting site in Pak Saeng fruit market to find Thammarat Suntorn, 34, with several gunshot wounds and a left hand that badly damaged by a bomb. He was immediately taken to Prapokklao Hospital.

    Police collected 12 bullet shells and a few grenades as evidence.

    According to witnesses, the two gangs began fighting at the market before Thammarat showed up to break them up with a grenade in his hand to threaten them with. However, he was caught in the crossfire, and the grenade in his hand exploded.

    Thammarat had been arrested in 2015 for gun possession and attempt to murder, but managed to escape. He will be detained once he recovers.

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    before Thammarat showed up to break them up with a grenade in his hand to threaten them with.


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    I've seen a street fight between two opposing technical school gangs in full flow. A running battle ensued and in the way of these things the course of the fracas detoured sharply from one direction and took an unexpected turn down into our soi where we were staying years ago in Bkk. Lots of fist waving and gorilla-like chest thumping among the chicken heads with frontline skirmishers drop-kicking each other and running back to their own lines taunting abuse at each other. And then out of the blue shots were fired from one group forcing the other to scatter in retreat. I dived from my balcony back into my bedroom for cover since to my mind the direction of any ordnance was not necessarily likely to follow the intended trajectory. All quite alarming and the tumult was very Asian with the local traders and quacking market women screaming and yelling at the youths. Then all went quiet whereupon a clapped out police motorcycle with two fat cops astride with legs akimbo and helmet straps dangling rolled slowly into the soi casually waving at any skulking youth to leave.

    Happy days and in those times it all added to the frisson of city life which never failed to entertain and gave satisfaction in a way that was a million miles away from the event-starved, humdrum life in the West. Seemed so much more fun back in the day but then, I was getting 70 baht to the £.

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    I was getting 70 baht to the £.
    That doesn't cure lead poisoning mate.

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