The Public Health Ministry has issued a directive requiring all kratom sellers to display clear warnings that children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers cannot buy their product.

Four suspects were netted, along with 4.5 kilograms of Krathom leaves, in a pre-dawn police raid of the Rom Klao Housing Estate's flats number 17-18 in Bangkok's Lat Krabang district, Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpan, head of the 191 emergency response unit, announced on Friday.