BANGKOK, May 23 (Bernama) -- Thai authorities has arrested 113 Cambodian Muslims at the entrance of the Rong Klua market checkpoint as they were heading for southern border provinces of Thailand and might pose security risks, according to Thai News Agency.
The Cambodians including children carried luggage and valid passports, and claimed that they are on their way to visit their relatives in border areas of Malaysia, the authorities said.
The joint operation by paramilitary rangers of the Burapha Task Force, immigration police of Sa Kaeo province and local police of the Khlong Luek station, also seized medicines, monosodium glutamate, backpacks and camping tents.
Authorities suspected that the stuffs could be provisions for insurgents in southern Thailand.
The arrested Cambodians were allowed to continue with their journey, after police gathered their personal data and photographs.
There has been the report in Poipet town of Banteay Meanchey province of Cambodia that a number of Muslim people were gathering in Malaysia and part of the people traveled through Thailand to Malaysia to join the gathering.
-- BERNAMA
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