KANCHANABURI: Police arrested a total of 66 illegal job seekers from Myanmar in Thong Pha Phum district early Monday morning, eight of them after the car they were in crashed during a police chase.
40 illegal border crossers arrested on western border
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published : 2 May 2021 at 13:47
2 Forty Myanmar migrants are arrested by soldiers in Muang district of Kanchanaburi on Saturday after they illegally entered the country. (Photo by Piyarach Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: Patrols from the Lat Ya Task Force on Saturday arrested 40 Myanmar migrant workers after they crossed the frontier into this western border province.
They arrived in two groups.
At about 1.30pm, acting on a tip-off from informants deployed along the border, a patrol found eight Myanmar migrants - three men and five women - near Phu Nam Rom village in tambon Ban Kao of Muang district. They were accompanied by two guides, who were also arrested.
Woman detained for causing forest fire
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published : 3 Jan 2021 at 15:11
20 A Myanmar woman identified only as Lone is arrested for setting a fire in the Khao Laem National Park in Kanchanaburi s Sangkhla Buri district on Saturday. (Photo by Piyarat Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: A woman was arrested on Saturday for setting a fire that burned down part of a forest in the Khao Laem National Park in Sangkhla Buri district.
Tewin Meesap, chief of the Khao Laem National Park, said that at about 3pm park officials noticed billows of smoke over a spot by Highway 323 near Moo 4 in tambon Prang Phle.
When the officials located the source, they saw a woman running out of the forest in a suspicious manner as the fire spread.
Migrant workers arrested breaking travel ban
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published : 30 Dec 2020 at 10:32
1 Police search a modified pickup at a checkpoint in Sangkhlaburi district, Kanchanaburi, on Tuesday night. Two Myanmar migrant workers travelling in it were arrested for breaking the travel ban. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen)
KANCHANABURI: Police arrested two Myanmar nationals on Tuesday night for violating an order of the provincial disease control committee banning travel by migrant workers, to stem the spread of Covid-19.
They were detained about 9.30pm after a pickup truck they were travelling in was stopped for a search at a three-way intersection checkpoint in tambon Prang Phle of Sangkhlaburi district.