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8 monks killed in Thailand after boy, 11, crashes truck into pilgrims
Five monks were killed at the roadside in Mukdahan province, while three others later died in hospital
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Eight Buddhist monks died in northeastern Thailand on Thursday – and over a dozen more were injured – after an 11-year-old boy driving his parents’ truck crashed into pilgrims walking along a deserted rural road.
Images of the devastation, shared across social media, showed the bodies of orange-robed monks lying on the road with their alms bowls strewn across the accident site in Mukdahan province, about 600km northeast of Bangkok.
Five monks were killed at the roadside while three others died later at a hospital.
Fourteen monks were hospitalised in Mukdahan, where the provincial hospital began an appeal for blood donations to help treat a rare mass-casualty event.
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