Participants on March 27 join in the fun as they are covered in coloured powder during the Holi Festival at Thammasat University in Bangkok.
Hooded thief
Robber steals millions
A lone robber on March 27 made off with more than 10 million baht from a cash delivery company while it was delivering money to an ATM machine in Chon Buri.
The heist occurred in Muang district at about 10:30 am.
A man, whose face was covered by a hood, arrived on a motorcycle, produced a gun and forced employees of the cash delivery firm to hand him bags of cash. The delivery team handed over five bags carrying a total of 10 million baht.
Canine killer
Man shoots dog
The Criminal Court on March 24 handed down a 14-month jail term, suspended for two years, and a 7,500-baht fine to a man who shot a dog dead in Bangkok last year.
The sentence showed leniency and reduced the original sentence from one year and eight months in jail and cut the fine from 11,000 baht, after Wicha Boonluelak, 32, admitted he shot the dog to death outside Imperial World shopping mall's Lat Prao branch on Jan 13 last year.
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Deadly weapons
Workers killed in explosion
There was an explosion on March 27. It happened at an old arsenal in Nakhon Ratchasima. Two waterworks employees were working at the scene. They were killed.
Vocabulary
lone (adj): without any other people or things
heist (n): an act of stealing something valuable from a shop or bank
arsenal (n): a building where military weapons and explosives are made or stored
leniency (n): an act that is not as strict as expected when punishing somebody
