SURAT THANI: Police are hunting for five Rohingya women and a three-year-old boy — all but one of them human trafficking victims — who escaped from a migrant detention centre in Muang district in the early hours of Saturday.

Police and volunteers rushed to the Sri Surat Home in tambon Khun Thalae shortly after being alerted about the escape at around 3am on Saturday.

TN

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