"LOP BURI"

As the cold front descends on Thailand to the relief of Thais, monkeys in some provinces are having a different experience. 

The elderly owner of a gold shop in Lop Buri’s Muang district committed suicide Tuesday night apparently to end his suffering following a stroke that left him partially paralysed, police said.

Police Wednesday morning arrested an alleged major drug dealer in Lop Buri after the authorities discovered some Bt200 million to Bt300 million circulating in his bank accounts.

Six people including a 14-year-old boy died in Lop Buri early Friday morning when a train slammed into a chartered van carrying 14 Songkran holidaymakers from Bangkok to Ubon Ratchathani.

A woman was found raped and murdered behind a Lop Buri school on Tuesday morning Police said the body of Huan Yukong, 54, was found behind the Ban Khao Din School in Moo 8 village in tambon Klong Ket, Khok Samrong district.

His Majesty the King has had a new house built with water and electricity for a man with atrophied legs in Lop Buri after his plight was reported.

LIKE A scene from a film, an underground passage was discovered at an alleged drug kingpin’s house in the border province of Tak during a 6am raid on Thursday… but the man himself was nowhere to be seen. It recalled the WWII classic “The Great Escape”, in which prisoners built an underground tunnel to flee their PoW camp.

An elderly Khon Kaen man living in Lop Buri who apparently died in his sleep on Friday morning may have succumbed to the cold as the temperature dropped to 19 degrees Celsius.

A Lop Buri man with Parkinson’s disease died after he was trapped in a fire that burned a stack of hay he was leaning on while sitting and smoking a cigarette on Monday evening, police said.

Red flags went up at the Rama VI Dam in Ayutthaya on Monday to warn people downstream on the Pa Sak River to brace for rising water levels.

A conscript remains in a critical condition 20 days after being beaten up inside a military camp by his senior colleagues.