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TAK: More than 1,000 people fled across the border into Tak's Mae Sot and Mae Ramat districts on Thursday as fighting continued nearby between Myanmar government troops and Karen fighters.
Illegal migrants, Thai helpers caught in Tak
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published : 6 Jul 2021 at 11:23
8 Illegal migrants and their Thai driver, caught near the Myanmar border in Mae Sot district, Tak, early on Tuesday. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)
TAK: Eleven illegal migrants and three Thai helpers were arrested near the Myanmar border in Mae Sot district early on Tuesday. Two Chinese men who had fled quarantine were also apprehended.
An army patrol in hiding watched a pickup truck with Tak licence plates arrive near a natural border crossing at Wang Takhian Tai village in tambon Tha Sailuad around midnight.
Shortly after, a group of people walked out of some trees towards the vehicle. The soldiers emerged and asked for their ID papers.
TAK: Seventeen Myanmar nationals, one a child, were arrested for illegal entry late on Sunday night on the bank of the Moei River in Mae Sot district by a patrol of the 4th Infantry Regiment.