More Phuket Boatpeople! About 68 Rohingya Land on Phuket in Two Groups

A second large group of Rohingya has been apprehended in Phuket’s Rawai region, bringing to about 68 the total of boatpeople caught on Phuket today. Thirty-three were in the first bunch, then two more were held.

MORE THAN 60 Rohingya boatpeople have come ashore on Phuket and are now being held by police and Immigration today after wandering in hungry groups around parts of the holiday island.

The men said different groups had gone in different directions after wading ashore in darkness off Laem Ka beach, a quiet cove alongside the luxury five-star Evason Six Senses Resort in Rawai, a southern village on Phuket.

Some wandered the nearby main street, Viset Road, while others looked for food in groups of five or six.

Phuketwan