A tragic incident occurred in Kanchanaburi’s Sangkhla Buri district when a pickup truck smuggling unlawful migrants from Myanmar overturned, resulting in one fatality and ten arrests. A police officer was additionally injured through the operation as he was struck by one of the three pickup vans concerned in the smuggling.
Late Wednesday night, a joint staff of troopers, police, and local authorities observed three suspicious pickup trucks dashing alongside a neighborhood road at Sanehpong village, Moo 3, in sub-district Nong Lu. When officers signalled for the autos to halt for a search, the drivers sped up and attempted to escape. During the pursuit, one of the vans hit and injured Pol. Capt. Pathiphan Yawan, deputy crime suppression chief at Sangkhla Buri station. Secrets was immediately taken to Sangkhla Buri Hospital for therapy.
Soon after, the group obtained information about a pickup truck that had overturned into a roadside ditch near a homestay in Nong Lu. Upon investigation, it was discovered that the vehicle was one of the three trucks concerned in the smuggling operation. A 22 year outdated man from Myanmar, identified as Zaw Leng Gu, was discovered useless contained in the wreckage.
While looking the world, officers discovered a bunch of people hiding in a close-by forest. All of them had been confirmed to be illegal migrants from Myanmar, consisting of eight men and two ladies. The arrested migrants had been handed over to the police at Sangkhla Buri station for authorized proceedings.
The incident highlights the ongoing concern of unlawful migration and human smuggling in Thailand.
Last week, seven Thai people were detained for allegedly smuggling Chinese nationals from Laos into Thailand. Authorities are trying into attainable connections between these instances and name centre gangs..