7 Myanmar migrants arrested in Songkhla’s Sadao district

Border patrol police and administrative officials early Saturday morning rounded up seven undocumented Myanmar migrants at a para-rubber plantation in Songkhla’s Sadao district.

The migrants were temporarily staying there pending a labour agent transporting them to Malaysia, authorities said.

At about 1am Saturday, officials, led by Sadao district clerk Napol Pahumanto, arrested the migrants at a shack at the plantation in Tambon Sanak Kham. One migrant escaped.

An arrested migrant identified only as Mia, 30, told officials that the group was brought to the plantation by a labour agent who had not charged them to take them to Malaysia to work.

The migrants were brought to Sadao Police Station before being deported.

By: The Nation
Published on: 24 September 2016