THAILAND: 54 BURMESE MIGRANT WORKERS SUFFOCATE IN TRUCK.

Interpress Service | April 14, 2008 | Copyright

By Marwaan Macan-Markar

BANGKOK, Thailand, Apr. 11, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- Fifty-four Burmese migrant workers recently suffocated while being transported in an enclosed container truck in southern Thailand.

The victims, whose bodies were found when the cramped truck was opened late Wednesday night, were among a group of 122 Burmese who had slipped into Thailand to secure jobs in the resort areas of Phang-nga and Phuket. The dead included 36 women, 17 men and an 8-year-old girl.

Survivors told the Thai media that the only air that circulated in the ...

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