At least four people have died and nine others have been injured.all Burmese citizens, after a serious traffic accident this Sunday in Kanchanaburi province, in western Thailand, according to local media reports.
All the victims would be undocumented burmese immigrants, police sources told the Thai media. Likewise, among the deceased are two men, a teenager and a woman.
The incident occurred around 6:00 pm on Saturday, Colombia time, in the district of Sangkhla Buri, located about 360 kilometers from Bangkok and on the Thai-Burma border, when the vehicle they were traveling in overturned after crashing into a roadside ditch.
The Thai emergency service reported that the four fatalities died at the scene, while the other nine passengers were taken to a hospital in the region, with different levels of severity.
After the accident, the driver of the vehicle fled without providing medical aid to the injured and is considered a fugitive from justice by the authorities. In that sense, the Sangkhla Buri police chief, Tanakorn Roadruang, told local media that a search operation was deployed to locate both the driver and another man who would also be in the car and escaped without offering help.
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Also, he determined his team to “gather information” about the nine immigrants who were injured in the incident in order to find out their conditions of entry and stay in Thailand.
Fatal traffic accidents involving undocumented workers from Burma are common in the regionas drivers tend to drive at high speeds to avoid being tracked by authorities.
Likewise, in many cases the vehicles do not meet the minimum safety requirements, since many of the cars are modified with the aim of transporting as many passengers as possible. Despite this, Many of the Burmese citizens choose to risk to escape from Burma, mired in a deep political crisis, economic and social situation since the coup that took place on February 1, 2021.
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