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B100,000 bounty on robbers of Chiang Rai gold shop

Two armed men enter a gold shop at a Lotus’s shopping mall in Chiang Khong, where they stole about 13 million baht worth of jewellery, on Tuesday afternoon. (Screengrab from Chiang Rai provincial public relations office video)

Police have offered a cash reward of 100,000 baht for clues leading to the arrest of two armed robbers, believed to be Lao nationals, who made off with about 13 million baht worth of gold ornaments from a shop in Chiang Rai and fled across the Mekong River into Laos.

The robbery took place at 4pm on Tuesday when two men armed with 9mm handguns stormed the gold shop inside the Chiang Khong branch of a Lotus’s shopping mall. After seizing gold jewellery weighing a total of 184 baht (2.8kg) and worth about 13 million baht, they escaped on a motorcycle.

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