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The bustle of boats and people has been replaced by eerie silence at Amphawa floating market, where Covid-19 turned the international tourist attraction into a ghost town more than a year ago.

As of 11am on Tuesday, Samut Songkram’s public health officer Dr Santhit Booyasong said eight people had tested positive for Covid-19 in the province.

Rescuers early Thursday pulled the body of the last victim trapped under a pile of debris of a ferry-stop pavilion in Samut Songkram that collapsed into the Mae Klong River on Tuesday.

One person is dead and two, including a young student, remain missing after a ferryboat shelter on a bank of the Mae Klong River in Samut Songkram collapsed on Tuesday, plunging more than two dozen people into the water.

Police have found a motorcycle an inmate used in his escape from a Samut Songkram hospital in Bangkok’s Nong Kaem district which is about 22 kilometres from the crime scene.

A Myanmar worker was killed and another injured when their pickup truck hit the rear of a trailer truck after a tyre burst in Samut Songkram early on Thursday.

Despite the Democrat Party’s massive setbacks in its traditional strongholds of Bangkok and the South, Rangsima Rodrassami will be returning to Parliament, representing the Central province of Samut Songkram. 

A 52-year-old man found to be under the influence of alcohol was detained on Sunday for allegedly damaging his ballot in Samut Songkram province.

Sunday’s advance voting was the first election to be overseen by the Election Commission (EC) chief, Ittiporn Boonpracong, who is a diplomat by profession and was once an ambassador to the Netherlands and Kenya. 

A 69-year-old woman drowned in front of her house in Samut Songkram's Muang district on Friday after she rowed her boat back from a riverside market, police said.

A man drowned in a canal in Samut Songkram's Muang district while fishing for prawns on Thursday night.

A Samut Songkram man drowned in a canal late Sunday night while trying to catch freshwater prawns.