13 illegal Thai returnees arrested in Tak
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published : 18 Feb 2021 at 11:04
2 Soldiers arrest illegal Thai returnees at a sugarcane plantation in tambon Tha Sai Luad of Mae Sot district, Tak, on Wednesday afternoon. (Photo: Assawin Pinitwong)
TAK: Soldiers arrested 13 Thais in a sugarcane plantation in Mae Sot district after they sneaked back across the border from Myanmar, where they had been working at a casino in Myawaddy, on Wednesday afternoon.
An army patrol found the 11 men and 2 women beside a cane field near a natural border crossing on the boundary of Ban Wang Takhian Tai village in tambon Tha Sai Luad.
The illegal returnees said they had been working at a casino in Myawaddy. They waded across the Moei River, which demarcates the border, and were waiting for motorcyclists to take them to the centre of the village.