Nine Thais are recovering from their injuries after an escape from a scam centre, run out of a Cambodian casino in the border town of Poipet, where at least another 200 people are still being held. The eight men and one woman fled after setting fire to their bedroom at the PuLi casino.
Following the daring escape, early on Dec. 18, Thai immigration police said they were promised high-paid jobs as stock traders and had snuck over the border into Cambodia where they realized they would be forced to work a call centre operation.
“The gang threatened to beat or kill those who refused to make scam calls to deceive fellow Thais in Thailand,” the government-friendly Khmer Times reported. “They also claimed to have witnessed Thai victims being shot dead by the gang members.”
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