Help provided to all Thai victims of Philippine volcano's eruption

BANGKOK, May 8 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already reached all Thai nationals who were injured in a catastrophic eruption of a volcano in the Philippines on Tuesday. Thai Foreign Ministry Spokesman Manassawee Sirsodaphon, who is also the ministry's Director-General of the Department of Information, first confirmed on Wednesday that the Thai Embassy to the Philippines has successfully contacted four Thais, who were slightly injured and were treated at Bicol Regional Training Center Teaching Hospital in Legazpi City. Manassawee told journalists that his ministry's Department of Consular Affairs has already informed relatives of the 4 injured Thais of the updated situation. The spokesman later announced that the remaining injured Thai national, suffering from sprained ankle and stranded at a resting spot of the volcano, has already been found and safely assisted by a tour guide and a rescue team of the Philippines' Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation. According to the spokesman, the fifth Thai victim, who was slightly injured from lava flakes, has also been sent to Bicol Regional Training Center Teaching Hospital for treatment. Four European and Filipino people were killed and more than 20 other mountaineers were injured, including the five Thai nationals, in the sudden eruption of the Philippines' Mayon Volcano in Albay province, 350 kilometres southeast of Manila, the Philippines' capital. (TNA)