A consular team from the Bangladesh Embassy in Thailand will interview 92 reportedly Bangladeshi nationals who have been kept in Rathaphum police station in Songkhla Province.
The embassy confirmed that the Thai authorities rescued 123 more individuals from the jungle in Thailand on May 8 near the Thai-Malaysian border.
Of the rescued, 92 claimed that they were Bangladeshi nationals.
The team will interview those 92 to gather more information about them to make sure if they are from Bangladesh.
With the ongoing Thai combing operations on traffickers, more trafficking victims are expected to be rescued in the days to come, said a press release of the Foreign Ministry.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh Ambassador to Thailand Saida Muna Tasneem and her team met and exchanged views with 15 of those rescued by Thai police from a jungle near the Thai-Malaysia border on May 1.
The ambassador visited a person named Toton Saha, who claimed to be a Bangladeshi, at the Sadao district hospital where he was being treated under police protection.
She spent two hours with Toton enquiring about his well-being, details of his experience about being trafficked to Thailand and his permanent address in Bangladesh for a subsequent nationality verification.
The ambassador assured Toton Saha, who said he was from Narayanganj, of a safe repatriation.
Saida Muna Tasneem also visited the protection centre in Ratthaphum district, Songkhla and interviewed 15 more people to verify their nationality.
Of them, a 17-year-old young man had been rescued near the Thai-Malaysian border in an anti-trafficking drive by Thai police.
The ambassador met Songkhla Vice-Governor Ekkarat Leesen and the senior commander of Thai police at the governor’s House.
She thanked the Songkhla administration for taking care of the survivors.
