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CHIANG RAI :Fifteen North Koreans, including two children, turned themselves in to Chiang Saen police yesterday in the hope of being resettled in a third country.
The North Koreans - 13 women, a boy and a girl - left their country and boarded a cargo boat to Laos, said Pol Lt-Col Wiriya Sujarit, who questioned them. They stayed in Laos for nearly a week before crossing to Chiang Saen where they surrendered to authorities.
Pol Lt-Col Wiriya said they faced illegal entry charges.
Earlier, Chiang Saen police arrested a South Korean broker and his Thai wife who helped smuggle North Koreans into Thailand.
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Drugs stuffed in toad
JUSTICE :Stuffing drugs inside a dead toad and throwing it over the prison wall is the latest tactic used to get drugs to inmates at Chon Buri prison, said Corrections Department chief Wanchai Rujanawong.
Mr Wanchai said a warder recently came across a dead toad believed to have been thrown over the wall at night. Drugs were found in the toad's belly. The prison has since stepped up its security surveillance.
The prison was also urged to keep a closer watch on foreign inmates after they were found to have raised pigeons which could be used to carry messages for communication with the outside world, Mr Wanchai said.
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Bodies await ID
PHANGNGA :A total of 381 dead bodies from the 2004 tsunami have not yet been identified although they have been buried, authorities said.
The bodies were buried at the Bang Maruan cemetery in Takua Pa district and are awaiting identification by family members.
Nitinai Sornsongkram, head of the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification and Repatriation Centre in Phangnga, said earlier that 32 bodies had been identified and the families would be informed to collect them.
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