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Overcrowding prompts limited access to Khao San Road

Visitors enjoy the Songkran festival on Khao San Road on Thursday. (Photo: Pornprom Satrabhaya)

Police vow they must limit access to Khao San Road as the well-known alley was dangerously overcrowded by Songkran festival revellers on Thursday night.

Pol Maj Gen Atthaporn Wongsiripreeda, commander of the Metropolitan Police Division 1, said on Friday that visitors could access Khao San Road from Chakrapong Road only and other channels to Khao San would be used as exits for effective control on the number of people on Khao San Road.

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