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Eight people were shot and a Brit tourist died outside a strip bar during the rowdy three-day long celebrations.

Known as "Sin City", authorities in Pattaya have tried to clamp down on the city's seedy image and growing sex industry.

Around 27,000 prostitutes are thought to operate in the resort's red light district which brings in more than a million men each year.

Officers hoped to tone down this year's celebrations, after cops employed a bizarre tactic to clean up the sex capital's reputation.

Brit Christopher Laidler, 31, died in the early hours of the morning after jumping naked from a third floor window of a room above the Sweetheart Agogo sex club.

Nearby, Nigerian holidaymaker Kennedy Akononu, 35, was filmed shirtless after being smashed over the head with a glass bottle in a fight with hookers and locals.

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The bloke had become embroiled in a row with teenagers after they were squirting water guns at women and was seen howling with pain in the street.

Just hours earlier thousands of tourists took part in traditional water fights in the street as part of the festival.

The tradition stretching back hundreds of years is believed to wash away the sins and bad luck from the previous 12 months.

But later that evening in Ayuthaya near the capital Bangkok, eight young partygoers were taken to hospital after being shot.

Police said a mass brawl broke out between men in a pick up truck and youngsters who had been revving their motorbikes.

The chaotic scenes were an embarrassment to authorities who had made desperate attempts to shed the country's seedy image.

Pattaya Police Maj Gen added: "The key is to have crime prevention measures. We want the operators in the area to be the eyes and ears for the authorities so that we can work together to solve the problem of crime."