(Mizzima)
After trying to avoid a police checkpoint, an overloaded pickup carrying Burmese migrant workers in Thailand went off the road and into a canal on Wednesday, killing seven people and injuring 12 other persons.
Police said it appeared that the vehicle was bringing the workers from Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese border and heading to the central province of Lop Buri.
The truck plunged into an irrigation canal in Ayutthaya, 65 kilometres north of Bangkok. Five women and two men died, including the driver. Twelve migrant workers were sitting in the open back of the vehicle.
Rescue workers spent two hours retrieving the vehicle from the four-metre-deep canal.
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