People pour scented water on Buddha statues at Wat Pho in Bangkok during the splashing-free Songkran festival last year. (File photo)
About 80,000 police will be on duty nationwide to try and ease traffic congestion and deal with road accidents during next month’s Songkran festival holiday.
Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas, deputy national police chief, on Tuesday said the traffic management plan had been completed for the April 11-17 holiday, when people head to their home provinces for the annual festival.
Pol Gen Damrongsak said 6.7 million cars were expected to be on the roads for the holiday, with April 12-13 and April 16-17 being the peak days for outbound and inbound traffic. About 80,000 officers would be on duty.
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