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Tue, 01/13/2015 - 09:07
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Thai police deal with Rohingya illegal migration

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT, THAILAND, January 13 (TNA) - Thai police are tracking down a human trafficking cartel believed to have illegally sent Muslim Rohingya migrants to Malaysia through Thailand, as the death toll of Rohingyas in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province in the Thai South has increase to three so far. Police of the Hua Sai Station in Nakhon Si Thammarat and social development and human security officials have collected the profiles of 98 Muslim Rohingyas rounded up last Sunday and have provided them with accommodations. Interpreters from an association of Rohingya people in Thailand have assisted in the task. The Thai police have found that the Rohingya migrants paid traffickers for their trip to Malaysia, in which their family members had earlier arrived. The local police have initially charged two Thai men arrested for driving pickup trucks carrying the Rohingyas passing Nakhon Si Thammarat last Sunday with human trafficking and are trying to reach a mastermind. The Thai police have also learned that the cartel transported 400 Rohingyas per trip and 98 of them were arrested in Nakhon Si Thammarat's Hua Sai District last Sunday, while the rest reached Sadao District of Songkhla Province, bordering Malaysia. Meanwhile, the death toll of the latest lot of 98 Rohingyas apprehended in Nakhon Si Thammarat has risen to three, after two more died on Monday night, one passed away at a hospital for diarrhea and the other on the way to a hospital for blood infection. (TNA)

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