CHON BURI – Nearly three dozen foreigners, many of them pensioners, were arrested and fined 5,000 baht each for playing bridge in Pattaya.

Local police, soldiers and Bang Lamung district officials raided a Jomtien & Pattaya Bridge Club meeting above Alto’s restaurant off Thappraya Road in the resort city on Wednesday, taking into custody 32 people, mostly European nationals, and holding them until 3am.

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