Force holds five migrants at border
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published : 1 Feb 2021 at 04:30
1 Five Myanmar nationals who illegally crossed the border to Sangkhla Buri district in Kanchanaburi are nabbed.
Kanchanaburi: A joint military-police-civilian patrol rounded up five Myanmar migrants after they crossed the border through a natural crossing point in Sangkhla Buri district yesterday.
They were among a larger group of Myanmar migrants spotted by the patrol hiding in bushes by the Nam Kerk-Sangkhla Buri road near Moo 8 village in tambon Nong Lu.
The five three men and two women, aged 17-45 were captured while the rest fled.
Maung Saw Oo, 30, one of those arrested, said they walked from Moulmein in Myanmar to the border with Sangkhla Buri district. When they were detained, they were about to set off for the Agricultural Centre in Sangkhla Buri town, where they were to board a vehicle to various destinations in the country.