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Sugarcane worker killed by harvester

A labourers at a sugarcane farm was decapitated on Thursday by a mechanical harvester in Ratchaburi province, police said on Friday.

Her co-workers said Laman Butr-porhom had dozed off in the shade during a break from work during harvesting.

She overslept and when the driver of the harvester started the machine up again after the break he did not see her, and the machine ran over her.

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