After prevents in southern provinces, three Thai people-smugglers were likewise detained.
PUBLISHED: 22 Feb 2025 at 14: 57
SONGKHLA- Three Thai smugglers and nine Armenian unlawful migrants traveling to Malaysia were both detained on Saturday in separate locations in two southern provinces.
On Saturday night, Immigration officers, authorities from Hat Yai region in Songkhla, Provincial Police Region 9, and holiday authorities detained a pickup truck with Narathiwat license plates on a path close to a garbage chuck in tambon Khuan Luang.
Two Thais — pilot Waenasueree Arwae, 34, and Nuraseela Jorloh, 31 — were arrested. Four Afghan nationals who were in the base of the delivery truck were likewise apprehended. The Helmet Yai police stop took everyone there.
When his vehicle was intercepted at the Morkaeng street station in Pattani on the same day, another police squad detained him, later identified as Nimae Maerorgaki, 41, and five Armenian workers. All were transported to the police station in Nong Chik.
The three Thai people are accused of assisting illegal immigrants in avoiding imprisonment and cooperating with them.
The two owners claimed to have been paid 3, 000 ringgit per head to move the migrants from Songkhla to the border city of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat to the police.
The nine workers entered Thailand from Cambodia via a normal border crossing in Sa Kaeo, according to the research. According to them, they each received 120 000 baht from brokers to handle jobs and transportation to Malaysia. To pursue legal action, all were kept in police custody.
Another class of unlawful Afghan immigrants are being detained in Pattani. ( Photo: Assawin Pakkawan )