Immigration police and local officials search one of two vans stopped at a petrol station in Tha Chang district, Surat Thani, on Wednesday night. Nine of the 16 Myanmar passengers were illegal migrants. A third van fled. (Photo: Supapong Chaolan)
SURAT THANI: The drivers of two vans were arrested when nine of the 16 Myanmar passengers in their vehicles were found to be illegal migrants.
Their vans were stopped and searched by Immigration police and local officials at a petrol station in tambon Khlong Sai of Tha Chang district late on Wednesday night.
Pol Lt Col Chatree Chukaew, deputy chief of the Surat Thani immigration office, said there were seven Myanmar nationals in one van, driven by Phitsanusin Imbunsu, of Bangkok’s Nong Khaem district.
There were nine others, including a 5-month-old baby and…
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