Lao national Ae Thongboonniang, centre, was detained by soldiers after he illegally slipped across the border from Malaysia into a village in Sadao district, Songkhla. A fisherman, he was returning to his family in Pattani after being laid off in Malaysia. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)
SONGKHLA: A Lao man was arrested after illegally returning to Thailand through a natural border crossing in Sadao district late on Tuesday night.
A border patrol from the 5th Infantry Regiment spotted the man about 11pm near a border demarcation post at Ban Rai Som in tambon Samnak Kham, opposite Malaysia’s Kedah State.
The man, Ae Thongboonniang, 53, was carrying an alien identification card issued by the Thai authorities. He entered Thailand in 1989 and had been living at Moo 8 village in tambon Bana of Muang district,…
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