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A team of military and police officers swooped down on a Thai trafficker as he tried to smuggle 11 Myanmar nationals into Thailand via Kanchanaburi’s Sai Yok district on Monday.

Kanchanaburi police arrested 105 illegal migrants as they were being smuggled through two border villages on Thursday.

Kanchanaburi border patrol soldiers on Sunday arrested 33 undocumented Myanmar nationals while allegedly trying to enter Thailand via a natural channel, unit commander Colonel Chaloemphol Sangtong said.

Kanchanaburi police on Wednesday arrested a man after discovering 32 gold bars, each weighing half a kilogram, tucked under the driver’s seat of his pickup truck as it headed for the Myanmar border.

The Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation has ordered Phatsapasa Resort in Kanchanaburi to remove its “huts” for encroaching on Khao Laem National Park land.

The Thailand-Myanmar border in Kanchanaburi province has been ordered closed from September 21 to October 5 after the neighbouring country reported a second wave of Covid-19 infections.

A school in Kanchanaburi province announced that it would be closed for three days after reports its students might have been in the vicinity of illegal immigrants, to prevent the risk of Covid-19 infection.

Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered closure of all access routes to Myanmar from Kanchanaburi province to prevent the spread of Covid-19 after a suspected second wave of infections in the neighbouring country.

Kanchanaburi's Khao Laem National Park has captured rare photos of a tiger from a camera that had been installed by rangers on August 1, chief Thewin Mesub said yesterday (August 12).

A park ranger drowned while returning from a mission to install cameras to capture photos and footage of wild animals in the park areas, Thewin Mesub, the chief of Khao Laem National Park said at around 10pm on Wednesday (August 5).

The Kanchanaburi Volunteer Defence Corps nabbed 18 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday (July 21) as they were trying to enter Thailand illegally via the Vajiralongkorn Water Reservoir in Nong Lu subdistrict. A Thai woman was also arrested for allegedly running the operation.

A village in Kanchanaburi province is inviting people to experience Siamese lifestyle during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (1873-1910).