Arakan News Agency
Police in Thailand have found 60 people from Myanmar abandoned by the smugglers apparently on the border between Thailand and Malaysia, including five Rohingya Muslims those are persecuted in Myanmar.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the police officials from Padang Besar area said, that those refugees who wanted to go to Malaysia to join relatives there, adding that they did not reach the area by boat, but crossed the border by land.
The official confirmed that the case is still under investigation to determine the persons involed in trafficking and those who migrate illegally are to be send back to their country of origin.
It should be noted that Thailand began investigating on human trafficking networks since the discovery of traffickers camps and mass graves on the border between Thailand and Malaysia belonging to Rohingya Muslims.
