Pai, Thailand, April 3, 2026 (AFP) - Blood clots, burning eyes: pollution chokes north Thailand

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2026-04-03

After hours spent in the thick pollution-choking parts of northern Thailand, Pon Doikam gets home and blows her burning nose to find blood clots spattered across the tissue. "It's suffocating," the 36-year-old coconut seller told AFP in Chiang Mai, a tourist destination among the areas affected by dangerous pollution levels this week. "It feels like you're trapped in the smoke constantly." Seasonal agricultural burning, forest fires and weather p......

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