Migrants found in two districts of Kanchanaburi were heading for jobs in Thailand and Malaysia
PUBLISHED : 19 Feb 2025 at 20: 27
UPDATED : 19 Feb 2025 at 20: 41
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Illegal migrants, men and women from Myanmar, are rounded up in a forest in Thong Pha Phum district of Kanchanaburi province in the early hours of Wednesday. (Photo: Piyarach Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI – A total of 116 Myanmar nationals have been arrested in Sangkhla Buri district of this western province this week for illegally crossing into Thailand.
Pol Col Paitoon Sriwilai, superintendent of the Sangkhla Buri Police Station, said on Wednesday that officers were notified by the 134th Border Patrol Police that a large number of foreigners had been seen in tambon Nong Lu.
Police found 116 people — 72 men and 44 women — sitting on the ground in a bamboo forest.
One who could speak Thai said they had travelled from Payathonzu, a border town where a cra
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