Four Thai women nabbed after crossing border from Myanmar

TAK: Four Thai women were arrested at a security checkpoing in Mae Sot district after they illegally crossed the border from Myanmar into Thailand on Saturday night, officials said.

The first two Thai women were caught from a Mae Sot-Bangkok bus at the Ban Hin Fon checkpoint at Moo 6 village in tambon Mae Pa of Mae Sot district.

The other two women were caught later at the same checkpoint from a bus heading from Mae Sot to the northeastern border province of Mukdahan.

In a subsequent interrogation by the authorities at the checkpoint, the four Thai women, whose identities were not disclosed, said they worked at a casino in Myanmar and had illegally crossed the border into Thailand for wanting to return to their home provinces.

The officials did not reveal how the women managed to cross the border illegally into the country.

They were initially charged with illegal…