Police raided a house in the northern province of Chiang Rai yesterday to find 71 Burmese migrants hiding inside. A Thai man who was also inside the house told police he was hired to pick up the migrants who had illegally crossed over the border from Myanmar and transport them to the house. The migrants told police they were heading to Bangkok to find work. Unrest in Myanmar is ongoing since the military coup that took power in the country last year and Burmese people continue to illegally cross over into Thailand to flee the situation.
Inside the house in Mae Sai district were 24 men, 36 women and 11 children all from Myanmar. A 29 year old Thai man was inside the house and told police he was hired as a driver to pick up Burmese migrants from the roadside in Piyaphon village, on the Thai side of the border, and drive them to the house in Mae Sai district. Each time he made the…
