AYUTTHAYA, March 28 – Seven people were killed and 12 others injured today when a pickup truck carrying illegal Myanmar migrant workers veered off the road and plunged into a roadside irrigation canal in Ayutthaya, 65km north of Bangkok, according to local police.

The accident in Ban Phraek district left five women and two men dead, including the driver, Suwicharn Boonmen from Sukhothai, as well as injuring 12 other migrant workers sitting in the open back of the vehicle, Ban Phraek police said. Rescue workers spent two hours retrieving the Sukhothai-registered vehicle from the four-metre-deep canal.

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