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7 Vietnamese migrants caught in Sungai Kolok

Seven Vietnamese migrants are brought to the Sungai Kolok district office in Narathiwat for questioning after sneaking across the border from Malaysia’s Kelantan State to Sungai Kolok on Monday night. (Photo: Waedao Harai)

NARATHIWAT: A combined patrol of administrative officials and police arrested seven Vietnamese nationals — two men and five women — after they illegally crossed the Thai-Malaysian border into Thailand in Sungai Kolok district on Monday night.

The seven were arrested at 11pm after they crossed the Sungai Kolok river from Malaysia’s Kelantan State to Kwa Ro Sila village in tambon Pasemat by boat, Sungai Kolok district chief Rungruang Thimabut said on Tuesday.

From questioning through an interpreter, it emerged that the two Vietnamese men had illegally worked at a factory in Malaysia….

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