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Mob turns on police
breaking up knife fight
One of the assailants dropped this
knife during the fight.
Boonlua Chatree
Pattaya police officers who broke up a knife attack nearly got knifed themselves
when the gang turned on them.
Officers patrolling near the Hard Rock Hotel on Second Road Oct. 2 stepped in to
break up an assault on 22-year-old Akkachai Aeimsri. About a half-dozen youths
were hitting Akkachai with motorcycle helmets and knives.
The angry mob then turned on police, hurling mobile phones at them and chasing
them with knives outstretched. After scaring off police, the youths fled into a
residential building off Second Road. Police did not pursue.
Asked about the motives of the assault on him, Akkachai gave investigators an
implausible story that he’d simply been riding his motorbike near the Alcazar
Theatre when the youths had flagged him down and, for no reason, started hitting
him with helmets.
Akkachai told police he’d escaped, then saw them heading down Second Road toward
the Lao Pan Restaurant and drove back to them to inquire why they’d attacked
him. When he did, they restarted the fight, the victim claimed.
Police said they planned to seek a warrant to bring the owner of the residence
the youths escaped to in for questioning.
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