By Thai Newsroom Reporters
A BAR IN BANGKOK was raided in the wee hours today (Dec.10) with 122 bargoers found to have used drugs, police said.
A task force of police and administrative officials raided the boisterous bar named Sonic on Pradit Manutham road in Lard Prao district at 2.20 a.m. and managed to examine the urine of those customers to find 76 males and 46 females among a total of 214 bargoers having used drugs.
A variety of drugs contained in plastic bags were evidently found on the bar’s floors and in the toilets and seized by the police whilst those allegedly found to have used drugs in the dimly-lit bar were arrested.
Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul who accompanied the authorities in the wee-hours raid said the bar had illegally opened with a licence which had expired a few years earlier. Due to the allegedly illegal business, the bar has been ordered to close for five years from now, he said.
He said the authorities will continue to crack down on such bars and other illegally opening entertainment venues in the capital and four provinces despite the government’s tourism-promotion plan to allow them to open until 4.00 a.m. as of Dec.15.
Those provinces with world-famous tourist spots include Phuket, Chonburi which geographically covers Pattaya, Samui Island off Surat Thani, and Chiang Mai.
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Police and officials accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister-cum-Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul raiding an illegal bar in Bangkok in the wee hours today, Dec. 10, 2023. Photos: Matichon
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