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57 caught for illegal entry on western border

Myanmar workers are taken to Lat Ya police station after they were arrested at a border village in Muang district of Kanchanaburi province on Monday. (Photo: Piyarat Chongcharoen)

KANCHANABURI: Fifty-seven Myanmar nationals were arrested at a border village in Muang district of this western border province on Monday by a government patrol, police said.

Acting on a tip-off from local informants, the combined military-police patrol rushed to a forest near Chan Ui, the Moo 5 village in tambon Lat Ya, and found a large group of illegal border crossers hiding there, waiting for transportation to take them further inside the country.

On the seeing the patrol members, they fled in different directions. The soldiers and police managed to…

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