BANGKOK: A large group of 295 illegal Muslim Rohingya immigrants, awaiting to be sent to third countries, tried to flee from an immigration quarantine in Thailand's southern Songkhla province Tuesday night, but the attempt was foiled by immigration authorities, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
Songkhla Governor Krisada Boonraj told journalists on Wednesday that the ethnic Muslim Rohingyas from neighbouring Myanmar tried to escape from the immigration quarantine in Songkhla's Sadao district, but the Thai immigration authorities were able to block their movement.
To prevent such the problem from recurring, the provincial governor acknowledged, the Thai immigration authorities have now separated the 295 Rohingyas into different holding and police stations around Songkhla.
The governor said that he has asked Songkhla's provincial public health office to send officials to provide basic medical check-ups to the Rohingya immigrants on humanitarian grounds.
According to the governor, the illegal Muslim Rohingyas have been held at Sadao's immigration quarantine for more than seven months and were probably worried over their uncertain future, leading to the attempted escape. -- BERNAMA
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