Superintendent of Phang Nga City Police Station Col Jirapat Pochanapant told The Phuket News today, “Together with Phang Nga provincial investigators and other officials we had been tracking the escapees since they broke out of the immigration centre.
“I can confirm that all 15 have now been recaptured and are being questioned,” he said. However, he declined to say exactly where they were found.
The 15 migrants escaped with six others from the detention block at the Phang Nga Immigration Centre before dawn yesterday.
During the pursuit of the six, who had broken away in a separate group, one Rohingya migrant was shot dead in what police say was an act of self-defence. (See story here.)