Thai man arrested for smuggling 15 Bangladeshi nationals

The Songkhla Provincial Immigration Police arrested a Thai man for smuggling 15 Bangladeshi people into the country in exchange for a transport fee of 2,000 baht each.

Immigration police received a tip-off that a Thai driver was using the Asian Highway in the Rattanaphum district in the southern province of Songkhla to transport Bangladeshi workers to a construction site in Malaysia. So they set up a road checkpoint and managed to stop the suspicious pickup.

The driver, 28 year old Thai man named Saifa, admitted to the crime when 15 Bangladeshis were found huddled in the back of Saifa’s truck. Each worker was between 20 and 40 years old and exhausted. Officers provided them with food and drinking water before taking legal action.

The Bangladeshi people revealed to the police that they wanted to work in construction sites in Malaysia to earn more money. They…