Thailand gets tough at the border as imported Covid-19 cases keep rising


All images courtesy of The Nation Thailand/Asian News Network

BANGKOK, Dec 13 (The Nation Thailand/ANN): An Ubon Ratchathani man has been arrested for allegedly transporting 12 illegal migrants from Laos in a pickup truck late on Friday (Dec 11).

The undocumented migrants comprised five males and seven females.At 10pm on Friday, officers of Navy's Mekong Patrol Operation Command arrested Pranee (last name withheld), a local of Ubon Ratchathani’s Sri Muang Mai district, near a border checkpoint in Na Pho Klang subdistrict, in Khong Chiam district, which shares a border with Laos.

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