Two vocational students arrested for alleged involvement in stealing Payoong wood

Two Nong Khai vocational students were arrested by police in Khon Kaen as they and three other alleged accomplices who escaped were illegally cutting a Siamese rosewood (Payoong) tree in the compound of a temple of Khon Kaen’s Ban Fang district Thursday night.

Police however seized a pickup truck loaded with five Payoong logs, one chain saw and three mobile phones which were abandoned at the compound of Wat Buddha Silanimit by the illegal loggers.

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