Illegal Chinese migrants from Myanmar arrested in Ayutthaya

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Illegal Chinese migrants from Myanmar arrested in Ayutthaya

PUBLISHED: 13 Mar 2025 at 13: 03

Chinese suspects sit in a pickup truck in Bang Pa-in district of Ayutthaya after being stopped for illegally entering Thailand through Tak province on Wednesday. (Police photo)
Foreign suspects sit in a delivery truck in Bang Pa-in city of Ayutthaya after being stopped for illegally entering Thailand through Tak state on Wednesday. ( Police photo )

Police have arrested five Taiwanese people after they entered Thailand improperly from Myanmar via Tak state.

Bridge police chief Pol Maj Gen Kongkrit Lertsitthikul said officials arrested five Chinese people in two delivery vehicles on Highway 32 in Bang Pa-in city of Ayutthaya on Wednesday.

Jittikorn Saejang, 31, one of the Thai individuals, said he had been hired for 6, 500 ringgit to pick up the people from Tak. He said he was conscious that they were illegal workers.

The five Chinese men told officers through a speaker that they had walked through a healthy borders cross to Mae Sot city of Tak and were heading for Bangkok for jobs.