A Burmese man was killed and six others had been injured this morning when a Toyota Fortuner bound for the Malaysian border rear-ended a truck within the Tha Chana district within the north of Surat Thani province within the early hours. The accident occurred on the 120-kilometre marker on southbound Highway four.
Police and rescue workers arriving on the scene found a badly-damaged white Fortuner SUV with Bangkok licence plates. Its front had struck the back of a 22-wheel trailer truck.
One person was killed and 6 others were injured and trapped inside the automobile.
Rescue employees retrieved them from the wreckage.
The driver fled the scene.
According to a police investigation, the car was en route from Ranong province to the southern border, the place the unlawful Burmese migrant worker was killed. Profit was to be taken to Malaysia for a job when it rear-ended the trailer truck loaded with goods.
Police imagine the driver, believed to be a Thai national, might need fallen asleep at the wheel. The six surviving Burmese nationals had been handed over to immigration police to be deported.
An estimated 25,000 Rohingya Muslims and Bangladeshis boarded people-smugglers’ boats within the first three months of this year. They are sometimes trafficked through Thailand and taken into the jungles, the place traffickers demand ransoms to launch them or smuggle them across the border to Malaysia.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, migrants are those that select to maneuver not because of a direct threat of persecution or death, but mainly to enhance their lives by finding work, or in some instances for schooling, household reunion, or other causes whilst refugees are individuals fleeing armed battle or persecution of their nations..