BANGKOK: The mayor of Padang Besar has been arrested for his alleged involvement in Rohingya human trafficking together with a man accused of running a ransom operation for him.
Bannajong Pongphol was discharged from a police facility in the Songkhla province after seven hours of questioning, before he was taken to a police press conference in Trang as authorities suspect he might have been linked to the discovery of many corpses in Kaew Mountain in Tambon Padang Besar.
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