KANCHANABURI: Four illegal Myanmar migrants were slain and nine others injured after a vehicle overturned on Highway 323 in Sangkhla Buri district of this western border province early on Sunday.
Pol Capt Tara Navanich, deputy investigation chief associated with Sangkhla Buri police station, said the particular accident occurred around 4am on Highway 323 (Sangkhla Buri district-Three Pagoda Pass) at Moo 3 or more village in tambon Nong Lu.
When police arrived at the scene for examination, these people found the car resting upside down in the say goodbye to by the side from the highway. The passengers’ seats, both from the driver’s side and in the back, had been eliminated. Only the driver’s seat was left in the vehicle.
Four people were discovered killed in the car. They were three men, one of them a son aged about 13-14, and a woman. Their particular identities were not yet known.
Nine other passengers, who were also unlawful Myanmar migrants, had been injured. They were admitted to Sangkhla Buri Hospital for treatment.
Teerasak Srinual, a witness who slept in the car at a gas station about twenty metres from where the accident took place, informed the police that he happened to run to take a look after hearing a loud noise. He noticed eight to 9 people trying to get out of the overturned vehicle and two men try to escape into the darkness.
Police figured the car had probably picked up 13 illegal Myanmar migrants through Ban Songkalia village by the two men who ran away and that the migrants were being transported to destinations additional inside the country.
The accident occurred while the car, which had been overloaded, was negotiating the bend at a high-speed and overturned, leading to deaths and accidents.
Pol Col Tanakorn Roadruang, the Sangkhla Buri police chief, got instructed police to collect information from the 9 injured imigrants who were being treated from Sangkhla Buri Hospital and to track down both men who steered clear of.