DHAKA: The remains of 26 migrants thought to be from Myanmar or Bangladesh have been exhumed from a mass grave after Thai police ended their search Saturday, as details emerged of the maltreatment endured at the remote people smugglers’ camp.

Thai forensic teams dug out badly decayed skeletons from shallow graves covered by bamboo and a few of feet of dirt throughout Saturday, according to a media reporter at the abandoned jungle camp in Sadao district, in Songkhla province.

‘In total we have 26 bodies. As far as I know one is a woman. We still cannot tell the cause of their deaths,’ head of the forensic team Police General Jarumporn Suramanee told the media, reports The Straits Times.

‘There are no more bodies. Every hole has been searched.’

BDST: 1950 HRS, MAY 02, 2015
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