DHAKA: Three people-smugglers accused of trafficking thousands of people were killed in a gunfight with Bangladeshi police Friday, officers said, days after dozens of migrant remains were found in Thailand.

Police said the three "notorious" traffickers had died after being shot during an anti-trafficking raid in the southern coastal town of Teknaf in the Cox's Bazar district, close to the border with Myanmar.

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