Local leaders in Chiang Mai are making desperate pleas to Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha as the air pollution crisis in the North continues to worsen.

“People are dying. Patients are streaming into hospitals to be treated for breathing problems due to the bad air,” wrote Wirachai Chaimongkhon, the kamnan of tambon Padat in Chiang Mai’s Muang district, on his Facebook page.

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