BANGKOK – Thai troops rescued 11 youths from a house near the border in Sa Kaeo province on the evening of Oct 13 before they could be smuggled to Cambodia to work for a call centre gang.

The rescue operation, led by the Aranyaprathet Taskforce, was carried out at around 6.30pm local time (7.30pm in Singapore) after the eastern branch of the Immanuel Foundation Thailand alerted the unit that several parents had filed complaints, reporting their teenage sons had been deceived and detained by a gang.