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Chiang Mai inaugurates city celebrations and Songkran Festival
CHIANG MAI, April 12 (TNA) - Thailand's northern Chiang Mai city has inaugurated the celebrations of its 715th anniversary and the annual Songkran Festival.
Chiang Mai Governor M.L. Panadda Disakul presided over a ceremony to officially launch the twin festivities on Tuesday--during which he also led local officials and people to give alms to Buddhist monks, to worship ancient Lanna monarchs who fought for and founded the city and to pay respect to "Songkran Gods".
Meanwhile, Chiang Mai's ad hoc operation centre for prevention and reduction of road accidents during the Songkran Festival's seven dangerous days, from April 11-17, reported 12 road accidents in the city on Monday, with two fatalities and 12 injuries mainly caused by drunk and reckless driving.
In Thailand's far South, Police Lieutenant General Paitoon Chuchaiya, chief of a police operation centre in the deep South covering the southernmost Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani Provinces, as well as four districts in adjacent Songkhla Province called a meeting of chiefs of police units in the southern border region--at which he ordered them to step up security measures particularly for this week. (TNA)
Chiang Mai Governor M.L. Panadda Disakul presided over a ceremony to officially launch the twin festivities on Tuesday--during which he also led local officials and people to give alms to Buddhist monks, to worship ancient Lanna monarchs who fought for and founded the city and to pay respect to "Songkran Gods".
Meanwhile, Chiang Mai's ad hoc operation centre for prevention and reduction of road accidents during the Songkran Festival's seven dangerous days, from April 11-17, reported 12 road accidents in the city on Monday, with two fatalities and 12 injuries mainly caused by drunk and reckless driving.
In Thailand's far South, Police Lieutenant General Paitoon Chuchaiya, chief of a police operation centre in the deep South covering the southernmost Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani Provinces, as well as four districts in adjacent Songkhla Province called a meeting of chiefs of police units in the southern border region--at which he ordered them to step up security measures particularly for this week. (TNA)
