Illegal Myanmar workers rounded up in Chumphon
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More than 20 illegal alien workers from Myanmar were rounded up yesterday morning in a palm and rubber plantation in Chumphon's Muang district.
The governor and an Army taskforce went to a cottage and found 26 illegal male and female alien workers inside, along with two Thais, Saowapak Petsom, 29, and Supachai Khankhlee, 30.
The cottage owner, Payao Nakhom, 55, confessed that she was paid them Bt100 per head per day to provide meals for them.
The workers from Myanmar were taken from the border province of Ranong to stay at the cottage, from where they were due to be sent to Malaysia.
Supachai and Saowapak were to be paid Bt2,000-Bt3,000 per head for their part in the scheme, the latter told police.
