320 killed in road accidents during seven Songkran dangerous days
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A total of 3,129 road accidents occurred during the seven Songkran "dangerous days", killing 320 people, Interior Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit announced Wednesday.
Yongyuth, the director of the Road Safety Centre, said the seven-day period from April 11 to 17 ended with 3,320 people being injured in the road accidents.
He said the period saw lower number of accidents compared with the same period last year by with 18.08 per cent increase of fatalities.
On Tuesday alone, 257 accidents occurred, killing 38 people and injuring 261 others.
At the end of the seven-day monitoring period for road accidents, six provinces were found with no fatalities. They were Nakhon Phanom, Trat, Trang, Pattani, Ranong and Satun.
The Nation
