2 New Zealand men arrested in Phuket for allegedly attacking policeman, snatching his gun

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They were pulled over for allegedly speeding on their motorcycles in a community area.

A photograph published by media outlets shows a man crouching over a policeman, with his arm around the officer’s neck.

Hamish Day, 36, and Oscar Day, 38, allegedly rode their motorcycles at high speed in a community area in Chalong, south of Phuket, on March 16 and did not keep to the left side of the road, said media reports quoting a Thai-language statement from a Chalong police station.They were asked to pull over but fled instead, and police lieutenant Somsak Noo-iad pursued them.

A video hosted on media outlet RNZ shows a man and a policeman wrestling over a gun. The man then snatches the gun and passes it to another man standing nearby.

 

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