BANGKOK: Thailand’s jailed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was moved to a hospital overnight after suffering a health problem on the first night of his detention after returning from years of exile, police said on Wednesday.

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Assistant National Police Chief Lieutenant General Prachuab Wongsuk told Reuters the jail lacked the necessary medical equipment to treat Thaksin.

He did not specify the health problem.