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Thai temple left empty after monks fail drug tests
By Agence France-Presse
Nov 30, 2022 12:11 am

BANGKOK: A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after all its holy men failed drug tests and were defrocked, a local official said on Tuesday.

Four monks, including an abbot, at a temple in Phetchabun province's Bung Sam Phan district, tested positive for methamphetamine on Monday, district official Boonlert Thintapthai told Agence France-Presse (AFP).

NO MONK-EY BUSINESS A Buddhist monk receives a coronavirus vaccine dose in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on July 31, 2021. XINHUA FILE PHOTO

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