Police deported three monks back to their home country of Cambodia this week after the monks reportedly stood outside a local resident’s home in Si Sa Ket province on numerous occasions this week so as to pressure the homeowner to make cash donations to them.

Three monks were killed and two others injured along with a lay follower and a driver when their van crashed against roadside trees in Prachuap Khiri Khan’s Thap Sakae district on Tuesday morning, police say.