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.
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.
Bang Khunthian gets field hospital
Geriatric facility to house mild cases
published : 9 Jan 2021 at 10:20 Squaring up for good luck: Squares for social distancing are market out on the pavement for devotees who pay respect to the statue of Lord Ganesh outside CentralWorld shopping mall in the capital’s Ratchaprasong area. (Photo by Apichart Jinakul)
Following the rise in Covid-19 cases, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is setting up a field hospital in the compound of Bang Khunthian Geriatric Hospital with 500-600 beds to treat infected people.
Located in the Bang Khunthian area on the outskirts of Bangkok, a section of the newly built hospital will be used to accommodate the asymptomatic infected or those with mild symptoms.