KANCHANABURI: Forty-two job seekers from Myanmar were arrested after illegally crossing the border into Sangkhla Buri district late on Wednesday night, authorities said yesterday.
Soldiers, border patrol police and immigration officers were despatched to tambon Nong Lu following a tip-off that a group of suspicious-looking people had been found in a forested area in Song Kalia village, said Col Thatchadet Arbuarat, deputy commander of the army’s Lat Ya task force, who was alerted at about 10pm.
By the time the officers arrived, there was no one at the scene. The same informant told them that the people had boarded a vehicle headed towards a pier at Wat Wang Wiwekaram in Wang Ka village Moo 2 in tambon Nong Lu.
The team later found the men and women gathered near Vajiralongkorn Dam behind the pier. On seeing the officers, they ran into a nearby forest. All 42…
