KANCHANABURI: A joint military-police-civilian patrol rounded up five Myanmar migrants after they crossed the border through a natural crossing point in Sangkhla Buri district on Sunday morning.
They were among a larger group of Myanmar migrants spotted by the patrol hiding in the bushes by the Nam Kerk-Sangkhlaburi road near Moo 8 village in tambon Nong Lu.
The five — three men and two women, aged 17-45 — were captured while the rest fled.
Maung Saw Oo, 30, one of those arrested, said in Thai that they walked from Moulmein in Myanmar to the border with Sangkhla Buri district. When they were detained, they were about to set off for the…
