Almost 100 migrant workers rescued from forced labor near Bangkok

SAMUT SAKHON, THAILAND, November 9 (TNA) - Thai authorities have rescued nearly 100 migrant workers, including children, from allegedly-forced labor at a processed seafood factory in Mahachai area of Samut Sakhon Province near Bangkok. The joint operation by the Department of Special Investigation (DSI), the Royal Thai Navy, the Royal Thai Police and provincial authorities on Monday followed a complaint from a male Myanmar worker who has escaped from the processed seafood factory. DSI earlier found that migrant workers, including children, were forced to work there for 16 hours a day, from 2am to 6pm, to earn their wages of about 1,000 baht every ten days, but the sum was deducted for their job brokerage fees. The raid found 91 migrant workers, 33 of them had no documents and 41 had their documents seized by employers. Local police were collecting profiles of possible victims of human trafficking and would take legal action against their employers. (TNA)