(MENAFN) The police said a group of 19 Myanmar men were detained on Friday after illegally entering southern Thailand.
According to police superintendent Pol. Col. Sirinat Sirabunphak, the group slipped across the border from Kawthaung Township in Myanmar to Ranong province in Thailand and then were brought by an unidentified human trafficking suspect aboard a cargo truck to the woods about two kilometers from Asia Highway in Bang Klam district of Songkhla province.
A temporary shelter in the woods was taken by the Myanmar nationals, waiting for another human trafficking suspect who would have picked them up and managed for them to slip across the border from southern Thailand to northern Malaysia, said the superintendent.
The police colonel said each of the illegal aliens paid 663 U.S. dollars to those suspected human traffickers who have remained at large.
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