The group, including a boy, climbed out of a holding centre in the province’s Rattaphum district, according to police. Victims of human-trafficking rings, they have been held in the centre over the past months as they await a resettlement programme and deportation. Thailand is a transit point for Rohingya migrants from both Myanmar and refugee camps in Bangladesh. While many of them take a sea journey across the Indian Ocean, some travel overland through the Kingdom. Thailand has no policy of welcoming them and they are charged with illegal entry if arrested in the country.

Source: The Nation Bangkok May 14, 2018 13:41 UTC