February 20 (NMG) A truck carrying 103 Burmese migrant workers to send back to Thai-Burma border has turn over causing six deaths and fifty seriously injured at 14 km away from Sankhalaburi in Kachanaburi district, one local resident said.

Total 103 Burmese immigrant workers - 90 males and 13 females who were kept in Bangkok Immigration Detention Center (IDC) were on the truck to Three-Pagoda border pass.

One local resident who visited to hospital told NMG regarding bus accident said, “Three males and three females were dead while the rests were getting injured. Among them ten peoples were seriously wounded and they were in critical condition. One child was also missing.”

Some villagers predicted that the death toll could reach more than ten out of those whose conditions were critical.

At the same spot, seven Burmese peoples were killed and over twenty were injured last year IDC bus accident.

Burmese migrant workers who were forced to send back to Sankhalaburi are needed to take photographs and sign their signatures at the Immigration Detention Center before they were dropped at Three-Pagoda border pass in Thai-Burma border.

Burmese immigrant workers who were kept in Bangkok IDC are usually sent back to Thia-Burma via Mae Sai, Mae Sod and Sankhalaburi borders passes.

Network Media Group