Information About Incident 46404-90189-226495 in Batticaloa Sri Lanka

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The Thai immigration officials with the aid of the Crime Suppression Division of Thai Police raided several apartments in Bangkok and arrested 155 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants on October 10, reports Colombo Page.

From this sentence, the following information was extracted.

• Meta Location: Bangkok, Bangkok
• Matched District: Batticaloa
• Actgroup: attack, arrest
• Actor: The Thai immigration officials with the aid of the Crime Suppression Division of Thai Police, The Thai immigration officials with the aid of the Crime Suppression Division of Thai Police
• Subject: several apartments, 155 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants

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The Thai immigration officials with the aid of the Crime Suppression Division of Thai Police raided several apartments in Bangkok and arrested 155 illegal Sri Lankan immigrants on October 10, reports Colombo Page. According to Thai media reports the Government suspected the illegal Tamil immigrants to be a part of a group seeking to travel to Canada as refugees. Many of the migrants were without travel documents or valid visas. Also, Intelligence information revealed that a number of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) militants were among the Sri Lankan illegal immigrants living in Thailand waiting to seek asylum in a third country, mainly Canada.

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