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Thai police said they planned to hold some survivors of a human trafficking disaster for questioning after witnesses gave police valuable information about the human smuggling network that trafficked them into Thailand from Myanmar.

Fifty-four migrants died in the back of a seafood truck headed for the Thai resort town of Phuket on Wednesday night when its air-conditioning failed.

Thai police charged 50 of 67 survivors with the civil crime of committing illegal entry to the Kingdom of Thailand on Friday, according to Col.Kraithong Chanthongbai, chief of Suksamran police station, who is charge of the case. Read full article »

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