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Photo Phriday: RIP Piggy Bank, Entertaining Duterte and HBD Tuu

Piggy Bank, a green sea turtle who survived an operation to remove 915 coins from her body, died from blood poisoning and other complications Tuesday.

Here are some of the past week’s photos from Khaosod English. Find more on our Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram.

 

Piggy Bank, 25, in her final throes Tuesday with vet Nantarika Chansue.

Read: Piggy Bank, Giant Sea Turtle Who Ate Too Many Coins, 25

 

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha and Rodrigo Duterte meet Tuesday. Duterte wrapped up his tour of the ASEAN countries in Thailand.

 

A street sweeper displays his unusually massive lucky charms Monday in Nan province. He wants four more to have nine in total.

 

More than 300 pig heads were offered at a temple Wednesday in Nakhon Pathom province.

 

Reporters wish Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha a happy 63rd birthday Tuesday at Government House.

 

A driver of a green Nissan March narrowly escaped death when a giant metal bar fell from a construction site on March 17 at Phahonyothin Road. Image: @Oosora / Twitter

Read: Elevated Rail Structure Falls on Car; Narrowly Misses Woman

 

Tuesday at Chiang Mai City Hall, Chiang Mai Gov. Pawin Chamniprasart poses with two young Hmong girls who were branded by British tabloids as thieves at a meeting between their family and British Consulate representatives.

Read: Case Closed: Police Say Hmong Not in the Wrong

 

Police took credit for busting Russian mafioso figures at a police news conference Monday in Pattaya. From left, organized crime suspects Amine Chanekar of Morocco and Russians Mikhail Kriventcov, Anton Filippov and Aleksandr Danilov.

Read: Pattaya Police Arrest Alleged Russian Mafiosos

 

Workers clear ground in a Chiang Mai forest Tuesday to create a firebreak in anticipation of wildfire season.

 

A wrecked structure in Amnat Charoen province the morning after summer storms wrecked 155 homes on Wednesday night.