Malaysian police say they have uncovered 28 suspected human trafficking camps located about 500 metres from the country’s northern border, a day after authorities reported the discovery of multiple mass graves.
“We discovered 139 of what we believe are graves,” national police chief Gen Khalid Abu Bakar told reporters.
“It’s a very sad scene … To us even one is serious,” he added. “We are working closely with our counterparts in Thailand. We will find the people who did this.”
He could not immediately give a figure of how many bodies might have been buried in the sites but the confirmation that there are 139 sites means the number of dead will be much higher than the 100 first suspected.
The dense jungles of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major route for smugglers bringing people to south-east Asia by boat from Burma – most of them Rohingya Muslims who say they are fleeing persecution – andBangladesh.
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