Reporter on duty attacked with pepper spray

On April 21, Colonel Nguyen Chi Phuong, Chief of Thanh Hoa City Police, said that the City Police received a complaint from reporter Tran Dai, from the Law and Society Newspaper, who was sprayed with pepper spray by a stranger while on his way to work.

The city police are applying professional measures to identify the person who attacked reporter Tran Dai. The incident was also reported by reporter Tran Dai to the editorial office of the Phap Luat va Xa Hoi newspaper.

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According to the report of reporter Tran Dai, he and a colleague drove a motorbike on many roads in Thanh Hoa city to record the phenomenon of many young people driving vehicles in a zigzag manner, causing traffic safety problems for road users.

At around 9:00 p.m. on April 20, while Dai and his colleagues were filming on Ba Trieu Street in Truong Thi Ward, Thanh Hoa City, reporter Tran Dai was oppressed by a stranger driving a motorbike with license plate 36B4-665.88, threatened to beat him, and then pepper sprayed in his face.

Reporter Tran Dai said he did not know and had no conflict with this young man.

The incident is being investigated by the authorities./.

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