Thai authorities speed up Rohingha trafficking case

SONGKHLA, THAILAND, June 10 (TNA) - Thai police and public prosecutors are carefully concluding their report on a recent Rohingya trafficking case to be then presented to the attorney general by June 25, as earlier scheduled. On Wednesday, the Thai authorities were questioning more witnesses from Songkhla, Satun and Ranong Provinces in the Thai South. A day earlier, five more suspects faced arrest warrants, including three people in Padang Besar Sub-district of Songkhla's Sadao District, one Myanmar and one Rohingya person who smuggled Rohingya migrants into Thailand. So far, there have been 89 suspects in the case, 53 of them have been in custody and 36 remain at large. Meanwhile, authorities have not yet arrested five Rohingya migrants who recently escaped from their detention center in Songkhla, but they believe the aliens remain hiding nearby. It was reported that Malaysian authorities have already, in the meantime, finished the exhumation at suspicious graves in a border area of the Perlis State, close to Thailand's Padang Besar, but they have not transported bodies through the Thai territory. (TNA)