sbk Posted December 23, 2007 Share Posted December 23, 2007 Thai police retrieve 22 dead Myanmar migrants from the Andaman Sea The Associated Press Published: December 23, 2007 BANGKOK, Thailand: Marine police have retrieved the bodies of 22 Myanmar migrant workers found floating off the west coast of Thailand, police said Sunday. Acting on information from fishermen, a police search party found the corpses in the Andaman Sea near Ranong province Saturday. "We do not know why or when the boat or boats sank, but we believe that they must have been overloaded and sank in that area about two days ago," said police Lt. Col. Yongyuth Preechachart in Ranong. The bodies of the eight women, 10 men and four children were being kept at a Buddhist temple in Ranong, Yongyuth said, adding that a local doctor may conduct autopsies of the bodies there. Ranong, some 290 miles south of the Thai capital Bangkok, is a major trading and commuting point on the Thai-Myanmar border. Many people from impoverished Myanmar cross the border illegally to seek work in Thailand. Source: Intl Herald Tribune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kat Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seonai Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Very sad indeed... and even sadder that if this had happened to tourists this post would have been FULL of pages and pages of posts... what does that say eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirvana Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Very sad indeed... and even sadder that if this had happened to tourists this post would have been FULL of pages and pages of posts... what does that say eh? agree completely. hardly makes the news which is sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seonai Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 In fact it should have been moved to News - sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mosha Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 I've talked to my wife, and she heard nothing about this. That stretch of water is very busy I can only imagine it was a night crossing for this to be unobserved. When you go down to Ranong immigration, the lockup there is always occupied with the illegal Burma they round up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seonai Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Anyway it is still enormously sad that these families died possibly in an attempt to reach greener grass... and no one is much bothered about it except 3-4 of us here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0Mix1up Posted January 12, 2008 Share Posted January 12, 2008 Of course its sad But so are the many road fatalities, are they ALL going to get coverage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirvana Posted January 13, 2008 Share Posted January 13, 2008 Of course its sadBut so are the many road fatalities, are they ALL going to get coverage? This is about a boat capsizing and 22 dead with little or no word about it or interest, do not think there are many traffic accidents with 22 dead at one time that would not make the news. Its the principal here , not sure you got that.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seonai Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Exactly Nirvana - if a similar accident happened with tourists on board this thread would be 35 pages long by now at least Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globeliner Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Anyway it is still enormously sad that these families died possibly in an attempt to reach greener grass... and no one is much bothered about it except 3-4 of us here You are joking right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seonai Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 No I'm not joking. I meant that they were probably trying to get into Thailand to escape the hel_l hole of Burma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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