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  • Thai police raid nabs 169 North Koreans [Crammed in 10 bedroom house]

    08/22/2006 12:38:22 PM PDT · by bwteim · 31 replies · 711+ views
    Reuters ^ | Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:47 PM ET | No author
    BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police said on Tuesday they had detained 169 North Koreans in a raid on a house in a Bangkok suburb after neighbors became suspicious of the number of people in it. "This is the biggest single arrest of North Koreans" in Thailand, Police Major General Pramoj Pathumwong told Reuters. The North Koreans, mostly women and children, had entered Thailand illegally and were staying in the house with 16 compatriots who had travel documents from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, police said. The 16 had been due to leave on Tuesday night for South Korea,...