CityNews – On 29th June, around 2.30 p.m. Changpuek Police apprehended a group of twelve young men who were sitting in front of seven-eleven, Boriboon Market branch, on Chotana Road. When body searches were performed on the group a metre long Samurai sword was found.
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This comes a week after vicious knife attacks in Chiang Mai left two victims within an inch of their life.
The man with the sword told police that he received the sword from an unnamed man before he left a nightclub. Photographs were taken of all the men, the sword was seized, and the men were allowed to go.
Police said they have set-up checkpoints all over Chiang Mai to try and end gang activity that has been plaguing the city.