PUBLISHED: 21 Apr 2024 at 14:08
According to authorities, about 3,000 Burmese people have fled Myawaddy to the Mae Sot area of Tak to avoid the growing battles between ethnic troops and Myanmar junta forces.
The number of Myanmar migrants in Mae Sot increased to about 3,000, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, who was overseeing the Interior Ministry.
He claimed that Mae Sot had previously received about 10,000 Myanmar migrants and that they had already returned to their country after things had settled back in.
He added that Myanmar was given a notice by the Foreign Affairs Ministry in Mae Sot after a shot struck a glass of a Thai home in the Bang Wang Takhian town of tambon Tha Sai Luat. No one was injured.
Security solutions said that about 40 % of Myanmar migrants were women, old people and young children, many of them suffering from heat stress.
According to sources, lots of Myanmar residents were hurt as a result of the dictatorship military’s resurgence of power in the area. On Saturday evening, a coup on February 1 used combat planes to bomb Myawaddy, and cultural resistance troops were attacking federal personnel close to the next border crossing between Mae Sot and Myawaddy.
Security specialists opened six Temporary homes for the refugees in Mae Sot were being run by local doctors it, and there were initial aid workers there.
The Myawaddy residents who were injured were taken to Mae Sot Hospital for treatment.
The primary boundary passing in Mae Sot remained empty on Sunday, but traffic it was sluggish as a result of the influx of visitors from Myawaddy to Mae Sot on Saturday night.
Dr Sophon Iamsirithaworn, open health inspector-general, said health authorities just recorded 1,686 Myanmar immigrants and more were expected to arrive. He claimed that one immigrant had been harmed by fragmentation and taken to Mae Sot Hospital on Saturday.
The Thai government was providing humanitarian aid to the afflicted people, according to Defense Minister Sutin Klungsang, who stated that wars were raging in Myawaddy. The general situation remained within the Thai government’s objectives, said the defence secretary. who had a few days to travel to Mae Sot.
Srettha Thavisin, the prime minister, announced on Twitter that he would travel to Mae Sot to watch activities, including border trade, and offer moral aid to local residents and security personnel following a cabinet meeting on Tuesday.
He claimed that leaders would have to be on the lookout for swindlers working in Myawaddy who might even retreat to Mae Sot and that he did not want the battles to have an impact on Thai land.