Officials save girls under 18 from prostitution after bar raid
Provincial officials check drinks at Velvet bar in Kathu district, Phuket, on Wednesday night. (Photo: Achadthaya Chuenniran)
PHUKET: Administrative officials raided a bar on Bangla Walking Street in Kathu district on Wednesday night, arrested two women for allegedly procuring girls for visitors and saved six girls from the illicit business.
The raid ordered by Manrat Ratanasukhon, director-general of the Department of Provincial Administration, responded to a tip from Operation Underground Railroad, an anti-human trafficking organisation of the United States.
Officials went to Velvet bar on Wednesday night to verify the complaint. There…
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