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Thong Lor police chief, deputy transferred over Covid cluster

Furniture sits outside the closed Bar Bar Bar in Thong Lor on Wednesday after hundreds of residents tested positive for the novel coronavirus. (Reuters photo)

Two top officers at the Thong Lor police station in Bangkok have been transferred to inactive posts at the operations centre of the Metropolitan Police Division 5 headquarters after Thailand’s third wave of Covid-19 apparently spread from entertainment venues in an area under their jurisdiction.

They are Pol Col Duangchote Suwanjaras, superintendent of Thong Lor police station, and Pol Lt Col Thanakorn Ngamyen, the station’s acting deputy superintendent.

According to the transfer order signed by Pol Maj Gen Sopon Sarapat, commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 5, a committee was set up on April 9 to conduct an investigation into the origin of…

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