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Malaysian court charges 4 Thais with human trafficking

First-ever extradition of Thai criminal suspects is linked to 2015 find of mass graves near border

Soldiers stand guard as rescue workers and forensic officials dig out skeletons from shallow graves covered by bamboo at the site of a mass grave at an abandoned jungle camp in Sadao district of Songkhla province bordering Malaysia on May 2, 2015. (AFP File Photo)

KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court on Friday charged four Thai nationals with human trafficking in connection with the discovery eight years ago of mass graves near the country’s border with Thailand.

More than 100 bodies were discovered buried deep in the jungle in 2015, triggering an investigation.

The four men, aged between 30 and 58, were…

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