BANGKOK: The number of people killed on Thailand’s roads during the country’s traditional new year week dropped by more than 10 percent following a junta campaign to end the annual carnage.

The kingdom has some of the world’s most lethal roads, with accidents spiking over Songkran - the April new year festival - as millions of city workers return to their country homes.

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