A deputy Phitsanulok police chief was killed when a highway police car leading a royally sponsored merit-making motorcade was hit by a pickup truck in Phitsanulok’s Wang Thong district on Thursday.

HM King Maha Vajiralongkorn has had a kitchen set up at a forest park in Chiang Rai province to serve free food to officials trying to rescue 12 teenage football players and their assistant coach, who are missing since last Saturday after visiting the park’s Tham Luang Cave.