Police have traced the seven Rohingya illegal immigrants arrested at Thung Song railway station in Nakhon Si Thammarat province last month to a human trafficking gang allegedly led by a man named “Muhammad” in Pathum Thani province.

The seven Rohingyas–five men and two women–were smuggled across the Thai-Myanmar border into Kanchanaburi province, then to Nakhon Pathom where they were escorted on a south-bound train by a railway police officer, identified as Pol Sub-Lt Chuan Soonkhum, to Hat Yai district of Songkhla province.

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By Thai PBS