A combined force of almost a hundred police and soldiers encircled a drug related community near a temple in Ayutthaya province this morning and detained 20 people for charge of resisting and assaulting police during a raid yesterday.

The raid yesterday at the community in front of Merurachikalam temple in Amphoe Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya district failed to net a female drug trafficker known only as Joy when a group of neighbours and her family members came out to help her escape narrowly.

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