PUBLISHED: 4 Mar 2025 at 11: 15
On Tuesday night, four illegal Myanmar job applicants were detained immediately after crossing the Vajiralongkorn Reservoir in Kanchanaburi’s Thong Pha Phum city by boat.
They were being patrolled by regional operational officers, officers, soldiers, and local government officials while they were traveling in a pickup truck.
Around 3 a.m., Ban Tha Phae’s Thong Pha Phum-Huai Khayeng Road flagged down the metal Isuzu delivery. The vehicle, which was registered in the southwestern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat, matched the description that an agent gave.
The vehicle fled, leaving the group of 14 people, 12 people and two ladies, who were traveling on the rear under a black covering.
The illegal migrants claimed to have departed from Payathonzu in Myanmar using biological pathways to cross the border. They had been taken to Thong Pha Phum, where a pickup truck had been waiting for them, after being led to a boat near the edge of the Sangkhlaburi borders district’s Vajiralongkorn pond.
They claimed a smuggler from Myanmar was charging them 20 000 baht each, but that payment would only be expected if they arrived in Thailand and promised jobs there.