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About 300 angry residents laid siege to the Thalang police station in Phuket in a riot on Saturday night and set fire on a number of vehicles to demand justice after two young men were killed when their motorbike crashed with a police vehicle going after them in hot pursuit.

The residents agreed to disperse at 3.30am Sunday after Maj Gen Thinachat Jindangern, commander of the 41st Army Circle, intervened and promised to arrange for the relatives of the dead and police to meet for talks at 9am today.

The problem began at about 11am on Saturday when two young men, identified later as Pathomwat Panarak, 22, and Thirapong Srisamut, 17, both of Ban Don vilage in Phuket's Thalang district, sped on a motorcycle past a police checkpoint in a suspicious manner.

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