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Over 100 Cambodian Muslims arrested before reaching southern Thailand
BANGKOK, May 22 (TNA) - Thai authorities arrested over 100 Cambodian Muslims as they were heading for southern border provinces of Thailand and might pose security risks.
Paramilitary rangers of the Burapha Task Force, immigration police of Sa Kaeo province and local police of the Khlong Luek station stopped 113 Cambodian Muslims at their checkpoint at the entrance of the Rong Klua market.
The Cambodians who include children carried luggage and valid passports. They claimed they would visit their relatives in border areas of Malaysia. Thai authorities seized medicines, monosodium glutamate, backpacks and camping tents from the Cambodians as they suspected the stuffs could be provisions for insurgents in southern Thailand.
Thai authorities then took photographs of the Cambodians, gathered their personal data and let the people continue with their trip.
There has been the report in Poipet town of Banteay Meanchey province of Cambodia that a number of Muslim people were gathering in Malaysia and part of the people traveled through Thailand to Malaysia to join the gathering. (TNA)
Paramilitary rangers of the Burapha Task Force, immigration police of Sa Kaeo province and local police of the Khlong Luek station stopped 113 Cambodian Muslims at their checkpoint at the entrance of the Rong Klua market.
The Cambodians who include children carried luggage and valid passports. They claimed they would visit their relatives in border areas of Malaysia. Thai authorities seized medicines, monosodium glutamate, backpacks and camping tents from the Cambodians as they suspected the stuffs could be provisions for insurgents in southern Thailand.
Thai authorities then took photographs of the Cambodians, gathered their personal data and let the people continue with their trip.
There has been the report in Poipet town of Banteay Meanchey province of Cambodia that a number of Muslim people were gathering in Malaysia and part of the people traveled through Thailand to Malaysia to join the gathering. (TNA)
