Trafficking alert in Sa Kaew rush
By CHATCHAWAN SOPHAPHAN 
THE NATION

 

Rong Kluea Market in Sa Kaew province is flooded by thousands of holidaymakers travelling from the North and the Northeast back to Bangkok and industrial provinces in the East after the long weekend.

 

SA KAEW: -- OFFICERS stepped up security at Rong Kluea Market in the border province of Sa Kaew to prevent illegal smuggling and human trafficking as up to 40,000 tourists per day flocked to the bazaar over the long weekend.

 

More than Bt30 million was expected to change hands as shoppers stopped off at the market on their way back to Bangkok and industrial provinces around the country to snap up cheap or second-hand goods.

 

Nearly 1,000 transit vans were inspected yesterday as police increased anti-smuggling checks before the New Year season.

 

Travellers going through checkpoints at Aranyaprathet, near the market, were subject to inspections after police were tipped off smugglers would use vans to carry illegal items as well as migrants to Bangkok from the area bordering Cambodia. 

 

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Doubtful they were from the north. I swear, the Bangkok media act as if the rest of the country were a vaguely-defined mystery half the time.