PADANG BESAR, June 4 — Police stopped Malaysian media representatives from entering the mass graves site when they arrived at the Malaysia-Thai border.
Barbed wire had been placed to prevent outsiders from entering the site, which Malay Mail reported about on May 16.
Several General Operations Force (GOF) personnel present advised journalists to return as it was a prohibited area and no one could enter without prior permission from the authorities.
One of the GOF officers said they were clearing the area at the mass graves site to set up temporary shelters for police forensic personnel arriving today to conduct exhumation work at the site.
It is believed that the forensic team would stay until bodies at the site were exhumed and taken to the Tuanku Bahiyah Hospital in Alor Star.
Exhumation work is expect last till Monday.
The mass graves and abandoned prison migrant camp are believed to be located near the Lubuk Sireh Felda scheme, on the Malaysian side.
Several Land Rovers from the Padang Besar police station entered through Thailand to deliver items meant to carry out the exhumation.
On May 16, Malay Mail reported the mass graves and abandoned camps on top of the hills at the Malaysia-Thai border.
The camps were used by the human trafficking syndicates as temporary transit points to smuggle in Myanmar and Bangladeshi nationals into Malaysia.
The authorities also announced they discovered mass graves and abandoned migrant prison camp at Bukit Wang Burma near Wang Kelian, where they found a total of 37 graves.
Police forensic team exhumed the bodies and removed the remains to the Tuanku Bahiya Hospital in Alor Star.
