Police hunt for Uighur escapee widens
One of the 10 Uighur-Turkish suspects who broke out of the Nong Khai Immigration Centre’s detention facility is still on the run and the authorities have expanded their search to Udon Thani province.
Based on a tip-off, police believe that Rachit Hachim, 22, might have left Nong Khai province and made his way along a train track to nearby Udon Thani.
Locals around Na Phu Train Station in Udon Thani’s Phen district said they noticed a foreigner wearing a cap in a pavilion along the tracks on Monday night.
Rachit was among the 10 foreign suspects who broke out of the Nong Khai Immigration Centre early on Monday morning. Authorities have recaptured nine.
The inmates said Rachit led the jailbreak.
“People alerted the police after seeing news reports about a foreign suspect on the run,” Pol Lt-Colonel Amarin Yooyen, an inspector at the Udon Thani Tourism Office, said yesterday.
A source said Rachit could speak Thai fluently because he has lived here for several years before being nabbed for illegal entry in July.
“Police are now looking for him at train stations and bus terminals,” the source added.
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