Kawthoung 10 January

A total of 24 Myanmar migrant workers including 20 men and four women were sent back from Thailand through the Kawthoung border gate yesterday evening for not holding proper documentation.

Thai authorities brought the Myanmar migrant workers to Kawthoung via sea route and handed them over to their Myanmar counterpart in Kawthoung.

The Thai government had arrested and detained them as they did not have work permits, and were found holding expired border passes.

Also present on the occasion were personnel from the township General Administration Department, the Labor Department, the Anti-human Trafficking Police Force and the Disaster Management Department and others.

The returnee workers are sent to their places of origin after being provided with health care.—Kyaw Soe (Kawthoung)
Translated by JT