BANGKOK, April 14 – There have been 161 deaths and 1,640 injuries so far during the three-day Songkran holiday, according to Thailand’s Road Safety Directing Center.

Dr Nopporn Cheunklin, Deputy director of the Department of Disease Control, said the number of road accidents during April 11-13 was 1,539, an increase of 93 from last year.

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