At least two groups of more than 330 foreign Muslims trafficked through Thailand were on their way to be trained abroad as terrorists to fight against China, the authorities from three countries now believe.
Thai police suspect the illegal Muslim immigrants discovered earlier this month were using Thailand and Malaysia as transit points to travel to Turkey, where they allegedly would be trained to carry out terrorist plots, the Bangkok Post reported.
The report quoted a police source close to the investigation into the separate entries of groups of 112 and 296 Muslims into Thailand.
It remained unclear what nationalities the immigrants hold, though Chinese authorities have identified 30 people of the group of 112 as ethnic-Uighur Muslims from the far western region of Xinjiang, which is viewed by Beijing as a hotbed of separatist terrorism movement.
The group of Muslim immigrants arrested at the rubber plantation, however, claimed to have come from Turkey.
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