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Defibrillators stolen from police traffic booths

An official from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration’s medical department shows an automated external defibrillator while demonstrating how to use it to students. (File photo)

Thieves have made off with 27 defibrillators kept at police traffic control kiosks throughout the capital city for use during medical emergencies.

Pol Maj Gen Achayon Kraithong said on Wednesday that 262 automated external defibrillators (AEDs)  were donated by the Thai Red Cross Society to the Royal Thai Police under a memorandum of understanding  signed  on Aug 25, 2021.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau (MPB) had been assigned to place them at each of the 262 designated traffic control booths throughout Bangkok.

It was recently discovered that 27 of…

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