Illegal migrants from Myanmar emerge from a compartment in the bed of one of two pickup trucks loaded with cabbages after the two vehicles were searched in Phop Phra district, Tak on Wednesday. (Photo: Phopphrapost Facebook)
Fourteen illegal job seekers from Myanmar and three Thais were arrested after the migrants were found hiding in the beds of two loaded cabbage pickup trucks in Phop Phra district of Tak.
Police, soldiers and local officials pulled over two pickup trucks carrying cabbages covered with tarpaulins on a checkpoint on the Mae Sot-Umphang road in tambon Chong Khaeb late Wednesday evening.
The driver of the first pickup truck with Phetchabun licence plates and a woman who accompanied him looked suspicious to the…
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