YAGNON, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Eighteen Myanmar citizens, who were trafficked to Thailand, have been brought back homeland through Myanmar's border town of Myawaddy in southeastern Kayin state, according to the Myawaddy General Administration Department Friday.

The 18 Myanmar victims including six women and four children were handed over by the Thai authorities to Myanmar counterparts in the border town on Thursday under the arrangement of Myanmar Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement and Thai Ministry of Social Development and Human Security.

With compensation provided by the Thai side, the 18 victims are being kept at a temporary care center in Myawaddy awaiting for sending back to their homes on Saturday, according to the department.

Meanwhile, 15 illegal Myanmar migrant workers have also been repatriated to homeland from Thailand recently under the arrangement of authorities of the two sides, according to the Ministry of Labor, Immigration and Population.

With their border passes expired and holding no other official travel documents, the Myanmar migrant workers were sent back to Myanmar on March 11 via Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge-2.