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86 Muslim Rohingya asylum seekers from Myanmar (historically known as Burma) detained in southern Thailand for illegally entry into the country have escaped from a crowded immigration detention center.
According to police Colonel Kan Thammakasem, the men used blades to cut the cell's bars and ropes made of clothes to escape from the immigration building in Sadao district in Songkhla province early today. They are being hunted by the police in nearby woods, he said.
More than 1700 asylum seekers from Myanmar's beleaguered Rohingya minority are being held in various Thai detention centres after arriving by boat earlier this year.
Hundreds of the Rohingya staged a protest last month in Songkhla against crowded conditions.
About 30 of them made a similar escape from a police jail cell earlier this month.
According to police Colonel Kan Thammakasem, the men used blades to cut the cell's bars and ropes made of clothes to escape from the immigration building in Sadao district in Songkhla province early today. They are being hunted by the police in nearby woods, he said.
More than 1700 asylum seekers from Myanmar's beleaguered Rohingya minority are being held in various Thai detention centres after arriving by boat earlier this year.
Hundreds of the Rohingya staged a protest last month in Songkhla against crowded conditions.
About 30 of them made a similar escape from a police jail cell earlier this month.