KANCHANABURI: Two Thai women were arrested at a checkpoint in Sangkhla Buri district on Wednesday while transporting seven Myanmar migrants and a child in violation of the provincial communicable disease committee's order prohibiting movements of migrants to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.
Illegal migrants caught on reservoir shore
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published : 29 Jun 2021 at 11:13
3 A soldier takes the temperatures of the 11 illegal Myanmar migrants arrested on the shore of the Vajiralongkorn Dam reservoir early on Tuesday. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: Soldiers arrested 11 illegal migrants from Myanmar on the shore of the Vajiralongkorn Dam reservoir in Sangkhlaburi district in the small hours of Tuesday.
A patrol from the Lat Ya Task Force lay in wait on the bank of the reservoir in Khao Daeng area in tambon Pang Phle after informants reported that illegal migrants would arrive there by boat.
About 1.30am a long-tail boat arrived. After the passengers and boat operator stepped ashore the soldiers emerged from hiding and arrested them.