The 17 are among 19 who fled the detention centre in Songkhla on Wednesday by using a cloth rope. FMTNews Songkhla
Thai border patrol police with sniffer dogs join the hunt for 17 Rohingya who escaped from an immigration centre in Songkhla on Wednesday.
They were part of some 40 Rohingya Muslims, identified as victims of human traffickers, who were intercepted by Thai authorities on their way to Malaysia. Thailand has long been a destination and transit country for men, women and children smuggled and trafficked from poorer, neighbouring countries, including Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
It has confined tens of thousands to sprawling camps in Rakhine state in the west, segregated from the Buddhist Rakhine population, since violence swept the area in 2012.
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