HIGHWAY Police early yesterday morning rounded up 26 migrant
workers packed into an SUV in Kanchanaburi's Phanom Tuan district and arrested
the Thai driver.
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Following a tip-off, police near the Ban Pu Namron border
checkpoint tried to search the suspicious SUV at 5am but it failed to stop, so
they gave chase until the driver pulled over and ran for it. Police found nine
women and 17 men - all undocumented - crammed into the vehicle designed to
carry up to 10 passengers.
They managed to catch the driver, identified as Somkuan Sida, 42, who claimed to have been paid Bt500 to take the workers to Tha Maka district.
Somkuan was charged with aiding, hiding or harbouring migrants who illegally entered the country and his SUV was impounded.
The workers were sent to Muang Police Station for processing and repatriation.
Source: The Nation
They managed to catch the driver, identified as Somkuan Sida, 42, who claimed to have been paid Bt500 to take the workers to Tha Maka district.
Somkuan was charged with aiding, hiding or harbouring migrants who illegally entered the country and his SUV was impounded.
The workers were sent to Muang Police Station for processing and repatriation.
Source: The Nation
Thai man arrested with 26 migrant workers in his car
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