BANGKOK: Fifty-nine Rohingya people have been discovered on a Thai island, saying they were abandoned by traffickers en route to Malaysia, a senior police officer said Sunday (June 5).
The group - among them five children - were found on Koh Dong island in the southern Satun province on Saturday (June 4), said lieutenant general Surachet Hakpan.
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