Thought-provoking discovered 106 unlawful migrants crammed into a truck in Prachuap Khiri Khan province, western Thailand, yesterday. The driver was nowhere to be discovered.
A involved forklift driver rang officers at Bang Saphan Police Station to say that he believed that a “suspicious” vehicle parked on the side of Petchkasem Road was carrying illegal immigrants.
Police arrived to discover a six-wheel truck, about 20 metres in size, with a Bangkok registration plate. The truck driver was not there.
A sticker on the again of the truck stated “Music Home Instruments,” but police heard voices.
Police opened the again doors to find 106 Burmese and Rohingya folks stacked on top of each other within the scorching, unventilated truck. There were 75 males and 31 females, including 21 kids underneath 15 years old.
All of the migrants were taken to Bang Saphan Police Station and then to Prachuap Khiri Khan Immigration Office to coordinate their return residence.
The forklift driver told the police that he was contacted by the truck’s driver, who informed him that the truck encountered a problem and wanted to be lifted and brought to Lang Suan district in Chumphon province.
The forklift driver arrived on the scene and was getting ready to raise the truck when he heard one thing uncommon – people’s voices.
He known as Bang Saphan Police Station right away. However, sooner or later, earlier than the police arrived, the truck driver fled the scene.
Upon questioning, the migrants informed police that they entered Thailand by way of the border with Myanmar in Tak province.
A trafficker in Myanmar arranged to have the Thai truck driver drive them through Thailand and into Malaysia, where they planned to work.
Police are still attempting to track down and prosecute the driving force.
The dangers of packing humans into the back of a lorry, like cargo, was confirmed on October 25, 2004, within the Tak Bai district of Narathiwat province.
That day, round 1,500 folks gathered exterior Tak Bai Police Station for a demonstration to protest the detention of six males.
When the demonstrators tried to enter the station, police responded with tear fuel and water cannons. Then, police fired into the crowd killing seven individuals.
Almost 1300 people were detained and ordered to strip and crawl to close by vehicles which might transport them to a military camp in Pattani province.
The drive took five hours. When police opened the vans, they found that seventy eight people had died from suffocation..g