people arrested a village head in chumphon for allegedly helping to traffic 74 migrants from Myanmar to thailand, where three female victims were subsequently raped, authorities reported on may 16.
The group of 15 women and 59 men were left starving in a forest in chumphon for several days when people smugglers fled a crackdown on their activities after the discovery of a mass grave of trafficked victims in Songkhla.
Police arrested one of two key suspects,identified as Prasert Sangkhom, 52, the village head of ban moo 2 in The Sae district, Chumphon.