Thais send back 11 loggers

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Phak Seangly

Eleven men were released and returned to Cambodia yesterday after spending more than a year in a Thai prison for illegal logging, a border official has said.

Thailand’s Sisaket provincial authorities handed over the 11 men to their counterparts at the Oddar Meanchey Chaom Sangam Checkpoint, said Touch Ra, chief of the working group on Cambodia-Thailand border affairs.

“They were sentenced and jailed for more than a year for illegally crossing and logging rosewood timber in Thai territory,” Ra said.

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