73 migrants from Myanmar and 4 Rohingya held on their way to Malaysia

 

 

Police intercepted two passenger vans containing 42 illegal Myanmar migrant workers on the Asian Highway in Thailand’s southern province of Surat Thani on Thursday night.

 

The two van drivers were taken into custody for questioning on suspicion that they might be part of a human trafficking network.

 

The two drivers admitted that they were each offered 25,000 baht, with 10,000 baht paid in advance, to take the Myanmar workers, including three women, from the Singkhorn border pass in Muang district of Prachuab Khiri Khan to the southern province of Yala, where they would be picked up and smuggled across the border into Malaysia.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/73-migrants-from-myanmar-and-4-rohingya-held-on-their-way-to-malaysia/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2019-06-22

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Why stop the migrants

They are trying to leave Thailand, not stay

Give them a police escort to the border

19 hours ago, rooster59 said:

The two van drivers were taken into custody for questioning on suspicion that they might be part of a human trafficking network.

Thailand is trafficking people on a huge scale, time USA put them back down a notch on the scale.

And time Thailand started to find the money men behind the organisation & not just arrest drivers!