Difficult to rescue illegal emigrants from Cambodia: police

40 Vietnamese workers who managed to escape from a Cambodian casino take a commemorative photo together in An Giang Province. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Khanh

Thousands of Vietnamese could have been smuggled to Cambodia to be exploited and rescuing them would be difficult, the police said.

Colonel Khong Ngoc Oanh from the Ministry of Public Security on Monday said most illegal emigrant workers were promised "easy jobs with high pay," only to be taken to casinos and other production facilities, where they have to work in an environment akin to imprisonment.

Without money or knowledge of the law, many illegal workers, who include teenagers, would find it difficult to escape on their own, he added.

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