Eight bodies have been recovered so far from the abandoned camp in Sadao district, in Thailand’s Songkhla province bordering Malaysia, but efforts to dig up the remainder of the 30 graves were hampered overnight by heavy rain.
The cause of their deaths is not yet clear, but further grim details emerged Saturday of the conditions endured by the migrants, in what Thailand’s police chief has described as a “virtual prison camp” where migrants were held in makeshift bamboo cages.
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