Border guard officers in Tay Ninh Province on September 19 worked with local police to repatriate nearly 80 Vietnamese nationals from various localities in Cambodia including Phnom Penh, Sihanoukville, and Bavet.
Border guard officers in Tay Ninh Province work with local police to repatriate nearly 80 Vietnamese nationals in Cambodia on September 19
According to the Tay Ninh Provincial Border Guard Command, they had recently received repatriation requests from between 20-50 Vietnamese in Cambodia daily.
"Most of them are workers at casinos, shops, and factories in Cambodia who were previously brought to the country illegally and have no papers," the border guard command said. "As Cambodian police have recently conducted various raids at local casinos which employ workers without permits, these people have decided to return home."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is working with Cambodian authorities to bring home 67 workers who fled a casino in the country on September 17.
According to the ministry, 60 workers fled a casino in Bavet City in Cambodia on the afternoon of September 17 and attempted to return to Vietnam. They went towards the Bavet Border Gate to find a way to the Moc Bai Border Gate in Vietnam's Tay Ninh Province.
However, four were caught by the casino guards. Cambodian police held 56 others for investigation. By late afternoon the same day, Cambodian police demanded the casino hand over 11 more Vietnamese citizens, bringing the total number of people involved in the case to 67.
The group is now being protected by Cambodian police.
Forty Vietnamese including 35 men and five women previously crossed the Binh Di River in An Giang Province's An Phu District from Cambodia.