More than 250 people from 20 nationalities who had been working in telecom fraud centres in Myanmar's Karen State have been released by an ethnic armed group and brought to Thailand. They were received by the Thai army,

The expulsion of foreigners from the Myanmar enclave comes after unprecedented pressure on the online fraud operations.

About 260 human trafficking victims, more than half of them Ethiopian, have been transferred into Thailand after being found along the Myanmar border by a rebel group.