All 10 Uighur escapees rearrested

The 10 men were aged between 20 and 41 years old.
Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt-General Nattorn Prohsunthorn told a press conference that the 10 suspects had been arrested for illegally entering Thailand in July and sent to detention facilities in Nong Khai.
“We will set up a fact-finding committee to determine how they broke out and how should be held responsible,” Nattorn said.
According to a source, the Uighur detainees used tools to cut steel bars in the ceiling and sneaked out while it was raining hard and during an electricity blackout.
“They used bed sheets as ropes to scale down from a height of about six metres,” another source said.
Footage from closed-circuit television system showed the inmates climbing one by one to a hole in the ceiling at about 2.40am.
They put rolled bed sheets inside their blankets to make it seem like they were still sleeping in the middle of the night.
The first nine escapees were rearrested after a massive hunt, which started as soon as officials at the centre detected the escape.
Police, soldiers, village heads and volunteers joined the operation.
Footprints made it possible for the team to trace the escapees to a densely forested area, which is about five kilometres away from the Nong Khai Immigration Centre. Nine of the runaway suspects were found there.
The other suspect, identified as 22-year-old Rachit, was arrested in a separate location.
Another source said the Uighurs crossed into Thailand from Malaysia either by boat or car, then said they were tourists, and expressed a desire to go to Turkey.