By AFP Water pistols, hose pipes and smiles on Thursday were in abundance on the streets of Bangkok as the city celebrated the Thai new year festival Songkran, after a three-year pandemic-related hiatus. While the three-day celebrations include paying respect to elders and sprinkling water over Buddha statues, the festival is also a chance for younger Thais and foreigners to indulge in a little booze-fuelled revelry. The ever-chaotic megalopolis saw a huge water fight take place at close to 200 official sites with smaller bouts of liquid-based clashes breaking out in neighbourhoods across the city, as residents welcomed a return to normality after years of tough Covid measures.

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