SUKSAMRAN, Thailand (Reuters) - A Thai court has issued an arrest warrant for the driver of a container truck in which 54 Myanmar migrant workers suffocated as they were smuggled into Thailand, officials said on Friday.
The owner of the truck, in which 120 migrants were crammed upright in a 20-ft locked container and began passing out when the air conditioning failed, was arrested on Thursday.
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