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BANGKOK, (APP/AFP): Thai police shot dead a Rohingya man who
escaped from an immigration detention centre Monday in a mass breakout in the country’s south where scores of migrants are being held.
The man was killed as he threw rocks down a hill at officers
scrambling to catch up with him and 20 other men who escaped after cutting through metal bars at the centre, the commander of Phang Nga province police said.
“He was throwing rocks at police from higher up the hill — that
could kill the police so they had no choice but to shoot,” Major General Worawit Panprung told AFP.
Two of the group of Rohingya were later caught but police are
hunting for the remaining 18 who escaped early on Monday.