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Prime Minister orders halt to Koh Phangan shotgun raffle prizes

BANGKOK — 13 August 2026, Prime Minister and Interior Minister Anutin Charnvirakul has ordered the Department of Provincial Administration to urgently end the practice of giving shotguns as raffle prizes, after five long-barrelled guns were drawn at a Kamnan and village headmen’s celebration on Koh Phangan.

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