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Bangkok Post
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Prayut uneasy as tourists splash water

Foreign visitors on Wednesday shoot their water guns at revellers during the Songkran festival on Khao San Road which is known as Bangkok backpacker central. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb)

Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has instructed Phuket's governor to familiarise tourists with the Songkran water-splashing ban after some visitors joined a water throwing party on Tuesday, said government spokesman Thanakorn Wangboonkongchana.

The instruction was issued in response to foreign and Thai tourists throwing water in Soi Bang La at Patong Beach during the evening.

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