Four injured in student brawl
A brawl among vocational school students near the Pattanakarn intersection in Bangkok's Suan Luang district yesterday morning resulted in four people getting injured, police said.
Students from the Bangkok College of Industrial Technology (BCIT) and the Bang Kapi School of Technology allegedly attacked each other with knives and homemade pingpong bombs at around 8.25am before dispersing quickly when police showed up. Officers from the Prawet police station nabbed 22 BCIT students and six from Bang Kapi, and also confiscated 10 knives, two pingpong bombs and a fake gun.
Traffic police Pol Lieutenant Ekkasit Setthasuk said that since some 30 BCIT students were waiting at a busstop nearby, he signalled for bus No 145, which had Bang Kapi students on board, to change lanes and drive past the stop quickly. However, the BCIT students chased the bus, goading the Bang Kapi students into getting out at the next stop. BCIT students claim that they were challenged by the Bang Kapi students, which is why they chased the bus. Students from the Bang Kapi school, on the other hand, say the BCIT students chased and attacked them first.
