BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thai police say that six Thai nationals will be charged with death by negligence in the case of 54 illegal migrants from Myanmar who suffocated while being smuggled through Thailand in a tiny, locked truck.
However, they do not yet have grounds to prosecute the six - including the truck's driver - for human trafficking, immigration police commander Lt-Gen. Chatchawal Suksomjit said Monday.
The 54 dead were among some 120 job seekers from Myanmar crammed inside the truck, which was abandoned by the driver when he saw that some of the passengers were dying.
Police originally declared 121 migrants were on the truck, but said later their original count incorrectly included a Thai man who had fainted at the scene and was hospitalized.
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