DHAKA: Authorities in Thailand have dug up the bodies of six suspected Rohingya migrants from Myanmar at a rubber plantation near a mountain where a mass grave was found at the weekend.
The military said on Wednesday, reports The Straits Times.
The discovery was made in Thailand’s Songkhla province near the country’s border with Malaysia around 4km from the site where the 26 bodies were found a few days ago.
‘Villagers living nearby told us the bodies buried here are the bodies of Rohingya migrants from Myanmar from nearby human trafficking camps,’ Colonel Jatuporn Klampasut, deputy secretary general of the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) Region 4, told the media.
Many illegal migrants in Thailand are Rohingya Muslims from western Myanmar and from Bangladesh who brave often perilous journeys by sea to escape religious and ethnic persecution.
BDST: 1523 HRS, MAY 06, 2015
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