Gamblers caught during the raid on an open-air gambling den at a rubber plantation in Songkhla's Hat Yai district on Thursday night are taken by police pickup to Hat Yai police station on Thursday night. (Photo by Assawin Pakkawan)SONGKHLA - Sixteen gamblers were arrested and about 400,000 baht seized during a raid on a rubber plantation in Hat Yai which was operating as an open-air casino on Thursday night. A team of soldiers, police and local officials swooped on the rubber plantation at Soi Prasarnmit in tambon Khuan Lang around 9pm on Thursday. The gamblers were handed over to Hat Yai police station for legal action, a member of the combined team said. An investigation found it was run by the same person whose gambling den in Hat Yai was raided and shut down in early January.

Source: Bangkok Post February 10, 2017 05:51 UTC