Fatal accident
Damaged vehicles are left on the Talingchan Supanburi road in Nonthaburi’s Bang Bua Thong district on February 26 after a 22-wheel lorry burst a tyre and crashed into the vehicles and roadside stalls. The crash left one person dead and six injured.
Flight fright
Turbulence causes injuries
Eleven people were injured when a Thai Airways plane flying from Japan to Bangkok hit turbulence before landing safely at Suvarnabhumi Airport on February 26.
The Airbus A340-600, carrying 227 passengers, two pilots and 22 crew members, took off from Narita International Airport at 10:36 am in Japan. The aircraft, Flight TG 641, hit bad weather while flying, causing injuries to passengers and crew, Thai Airways International president Charamporn Jotikasthira said.
The plane landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport at 3:51 pm, and the injured were taken to a hospital, Charamporn said.
New campaign
Health Ministry announces plan
The Public Health Ministry has launched a 10-year campaign against unwanted pregnancy in an effort to promote safe sex among adults and prevent teenage motherhood. The campaign involves distributing more than 80 million condoms.
There has been a growing number of teen mothers over the past decade, from 14 percent of all pregnancies in 2003 to 17 percent in 2013, according to the minister. Alarmingly, about 60-70 children aged 10 also give birth each year, he added.
About 40 percent of those who have abortions are students, according to the minister.
EASY NEWS FOR M1-3
People smuggler
Myanmar man arrested
A Myanmar man was arrested. He was trying to smuggle 18 Myanmar migrants into Thailand. It happened in Kanchanaburi on February 26. The migrants were hidden in a pickup truck.
Vocabulary
- lorry (n): a large truck used for carrying heavy loads by road
turbulence (n): a series of sudden and violent changes in the direction that air or water is moving
abortion (n): the deliberate ending of a pregnancy at an early stage
smuggle (v): to take, send or bring goods or people secretly and illegally into or out of a country, etc.
