Two Nong Khai vocational students were arrested by police in Khon Kaen as they and three other alleged accomplices who escaped were illegally cutting a Siamese rosewood (Payoong) tree in the compound of a temple of Khon Kaen’s Ban Fang district Thursday night.

Police however seized a pickup truck loaded with five Payoong logs, one chain saw and three mobile phones which were abandoned at the compound of Wat Buddha Silanimit by the illegal loggers.

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