THAILAND: 54 BURMESE MIGRANT WORKERS SUFFOCATE IN TRUCK Inter Press Service English News Wire | April 14, 2008| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Marwaan Macan-Markar
Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-14-2008
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 sealed ...

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