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People-smugglers busted in Chiang Rai

People-smugglers busted in Chiang Rai

Three Thais accused of bringing 9 Chinese nationals across border

Five of the 12 suspects caught in Thoeng district of Chiang Rai wait beside a car after being stopped by police on Friday. (Crime Suppression Division photo)

CHIANG RAI: Police have arrested three Thai drivers and nine illegal Chinese migrants travelling in three cars in Thoeng district of this northern province.

Officers from the Crime Suppression and Highway Police divisions stopped the three cars in front of Mae Loi Rai School in tambon Mae Loi on Friday following a tip-off that some foreign nationals were being brought into the country illegally, said Pol Col Pathak Khanna, chief of CSD Sub-division 4.

The officers found nine Chinese men inside the…

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