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54 Burmese Migrant Workers Suffocate in Border Crossing

Posted Apr 10, 08 6:54 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Police yesterday discovered the bodies of 54 Burmese migrant workers who suffocated in a truck heading across the border to Thailand. Workers crammed in the 7-by-20-foot space, almost all women, say when they finally managed to alert the driver, he fled. Each worker paid $314 to be smuggled into Thailand, according to some of the 67 travelers who survived the ordeal, reports CNN.

Sources Reuters, Associated Press

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Thailand volunteer rescue workers collect the bodies of dead Myanmar migrant workers Thursday, April 10, 2008, from the back of a seafood van in Ranong, Thailand.   (AP Photo/Daily News)
Thailand volunteer rescue workers remove the bodies of dead Myanmar migrant workers Thursday, April 10, 2008, from the back of a seafood van in Ranong, Thailand.   (AP Photo/The Daily News)
Thailand volunteer rescue workers collect the bodies of dead Myanmar migrant workers Thursday, April 10, 2008, from the back of a seafood van in Ranong, Thailand.   (AP Photo/Daily News)
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