Thai Police rescue 52 Burmese workers, nab kidnappers

Over 500,000 baht is seized in house raids

Police have rescued 52 illegal Burmese workers from two houses in Suphan Buri and arrested two Burmese nationals and four other Thais for allegedly illegally detaining them for ransom.

The rescue operation was carried out by the Anti-Human Trafficking Division police team following a complaint by a Burmese woman that her daughter and her son-in-law had been kidnapped by a gang for a 36,000 baht ransom.

Read more: Bangkok Post

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