Bangkok, Thailand (BBN)-Thailand and Malaysia will increase joint border patrols to deter human traffickers from setting up migrant camps after hundreds of Rohingya migrants were found in the jungle near the border earlier this month, media in the two countries reported on Saturday.
Thai News Agency (TNA) quoted Lieutenant General Prakarn Cholayuth as saying that the two countries had agreed to conduct joint border patrols in more locations, in a report picked up by Malaysia's Bernama news agency, reports The Straits Times.
The report said the the decision was made at a high-level Thai-Malaysian committee meeting on Friday.
Starving and sick migrants and the remains of suspected victims of human trafficking were found in a few hideouts in the jungle in Songkhla earlier this month.