India to Repatriate 500 Trafficked Nationals via Thailand

India is working with Thai authorities to repatriate about 500 Indian nationals detained in Thailand after they fled across the border following Myanmar military raids on the KK Park cybercrime hub, the Ministry of External Affairs said. Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said a special flight will land in Mae Sot and that the Indian ambassador will meet Thai immigration to speed up legal verification of evacuees. More than 1,500 people from 28 countries have entered Mae Sot since the raids, and many are described as trafficked victims while some are alleged perpetrators of online scams run from KK Park. The operation is complicated because many evacuees lack passports or entered Thailand irregularly, and Indian officials are verifying nationality and completing legal formalities before repatriation. India earlier this year repatriated 549 nationals from similar cyber-fraud centres.