KANCHANABURI: Thailand Forest officials have seized illegally felled logs, weighing between five and six tones, from a six-wheel truck parked along a road in Kanchanaburi here the other day after one of its front tyres blew out.
Forestry officials, led by Paithoon Inthabut, chief of Kanchanaburi’s Salak Phra Wildlife Sanctuary, rushed to the road at the entrance of Khiriwong housing estate in tambon Wang Dong in the province’s Muang district after being alerted at about 5.20pm.
The officials found a six-wheel truck with a Ratchaburi licence plate loaded with logs parked in the area, with its front left tyre blown out. Nobody was in the truck, officials told Customs Today.