Nearly 500 Indian nationals have crossed into Thailand following a crackdown on several notorious scam centres in Myanmar, and India is working with Thai authorities to bring them home after completing the required legal process, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, reported PTI .

It is learnt that New Delhi is considering sending an aircraft to Thailand to repatriate the Indians, most of whom were victims of cyber fraud rackets operating from Myanmar’s KK Park complex, said PTI .

Confirming the development, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said nearly 500 Indians are currently at Mae Sot in western Thailand. “The Indian government will send a plane to take them back directly,” he said.

Anutin did not say whether the Indian nationals were being treated as crimin

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