News Forum - Burmese continue to flood across Thai-Myanmar border, fleeing unrest

[Thaiger]

Police raided a house in the northern province of Chiang Rai yesterday to find 71 Burmese migrants hiding inside. A Thai man who was also inside the house told police he was hired to pick up the migrants who had illegally crossed over the border from Myanmar and transport them to the house. The migrants told police they were heading to Bangkok to find work. Unrest in Myanmar is ongoing since the military coup that took power in the country last year and Burmese people continue to illegally cross over into Thailand to flee the situation. Inside the house in […]

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