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Deformed Chinese beggars prompt probe

An investigation has been launched after three Chinese women in girl student uniforms, with deformed faces and amputated hands, were found by police begging on the roadside at different spots in Bangkok.

Social Development and Human Security Minister Varawut Silpa-archa said on Monday that the beggars might be victims of human trafficking,

Kanthat Pongpaiboonvej, alias ‘good Samaritan’ Kan Chompalang, on Nov 10 led officials from the Ministry of Social Development and Human Security and Bang Phlat police to an area in front of a department store in Pin Klao area after being informed that a Chinese woman in girl student uniform had begged for money under a pedestrian crossing. Her face and head…

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