BANGKOK, Feb 15: Thai immigration police said on Friday they had rounded up some 100 illegal immigrants from South Asian nations in a pre-dawn raid on Bangkok’s Little India.
Police raided a five-storey dormitory in the Pahurat area of the capital’s old quarter, arresting nationals from Nepal, India, Pakistan and a number of Middle-East countries, they said.
Police said they found three Pakistanis working under fake work permits, registered as Myanmar nationals.
Thailand is a busy transit point for illegal immigrants heading to South Korea, Malaysia and other countries, police said. Many of them enter Thailand on tourist visas.—AFP
