"Lat Phrao"

Cannabis-smugglers drove into the car park of a Bangkok mall on Monday, only to fall into a trap set by the Crime Suppression Division.

In a suspected case of suicide, a woman was found dead along with two cats in the bathroom of her apartment in Lat Phrao.

Police on Sunday came to the rescue of an ailing, bed-ridden Thai man in his 30s at a roadside shophouse in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao istrict after a citizen alerted the Pavena Foundation for Women and Children on Saturday that the man had called for help from passers-by.

A blind man jumped to his death from the rooftop of a seven-floor apartment building in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district on Tuesday after his wife, who is also blind, had recently separated from him, police said.

Motorists were asked to avoid the notoriously congested Lat Phrao Road between sois 59 and 64 following the rupture of a tap water pipe on Monday morning, leading to flooding.

Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister General Prawit Wongsuwon has assigned a working team to solve congestion in Bangkok's Lat Phrao due to the construction of the Yellow Line (Lat Phrao-Samrong) elevated railway, said Defence Ministry spokesman Lt-Gen Khongcheep Tantrawanich.

Commuters should avoid parking along a new “shortcut” route in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao area during rush hour unless they want their car towed away by police.

The notoriously congested Lat Phrao Road will have even less space for vehicles starting Friday night as construction of the Yellow Line elevated railway will begin.

A man was found dead under a Lat Phrao flyover on Wednesday morning.

Police rounded up 55 youngsters, from a birthday party in which participants were accused of using narcotics, at a resort called “19 Villa” in Bangkok’s Lat Phrao district early on Sunday morning.

TWO repeat offenders have been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing a young man during an iPhone robbery.

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