Phatthalung highway police intercept 58 illegal immigrants from Bangladesh

[webfact]

Highway police in Phatthalung intercepted three pickup trucks carrying 58 illegal Bangladesh immigrants. The migrants were being smuggled into Hat Yai to work. The drivers confessed to receiving 1,500 baht per person, a higher income than transporting goods or vegetables.

 

Today, Deputy Superintendent Chamnan Suwanchatree, along with seven officers, set up a checkpoint on the southbound Asia Highway between Nakhon Si Thammarat and Phatthalung. They stopped three pickup trucks, one with a Yasothon registration number บบ 3441, another with a Phitsanulok registration number ผค 5217, and the third with a Phetchaburi registration number ขย 6126, reported KhaoSod.

 

Upon inspection, the officers found the trucks suspicious. Inside all three vehicles, hidden under the cover usually used for transporting vegetables, were 58 Myanmar nationals – 25 men, 26 women, and seven children. They also detained the three drivers and three other Thai nationals on board, before handing them over to the investigating officers of Na Khayat Police Station for further legal action.

 

by Nattapong Westwood 

Picture courtesy of KhaoSod

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-12-20

 

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[Stocky]

10 minutes ago, webfact said:

Highway police in Phatthalung intercepted three pickup trucks carrying 58 illegal Bangladesh immigrants....

 

...Upon inspection, the officers found the trucks suspicious. Inside all three vehicles, hidden under the cover usually used for transporting vegetables, were 58 Myanmar nationals – 25 men, 26 women, and seven children.

Bangladeshi or Myanma? I guess probably Rohingya.

[hotchilli]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Highway police in Phatthalung intercepted three pickup trucks carrying 58 illegal Bangladesh immigrants. The migrants were being smuggled into Hat Yai to work. The drivers confessed to receiving 1,500 baht per person, a higher income than transporting goods or vegetables

Thailand still at the heart of people smuggling... it should be highlighted on the global list.

[tubby johnson]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

58 illegal Bangladesh immigrants

 

3 hours ago, webfact said:

58 Myanmar nationals

 

Rubbish journalism again 

[brianthainess]

19 in each pick up, driver says more money than delivering vegetables.

[PETERTHEEATER]

An average of 22 in each truck bed stacked like cordwood........🥴