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Wed, 08/28/2013 - 10:36
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More than 1,000 Thais in Egypt return home

BANGKOK, August 28 (TNA) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports that more than 1,000 Thai nationals have returned home from violence-plagued Egypt and additional 176 of them will return home over the next couple of days. Deputy Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs Nattawut Pothisaro told journalists on Wednesday that 1,020 Thai nationals, out of a total of about 2,000 of them, have evacuated from Egypt and the 176 more Thai evacuees will arrive home within the coming weekend. Nattawut affirmed that the Thai Embassy in Cairo has arranged flights for the 176 additional Thais, who have registered for their departures from Egypt. According to the senior official, the new group of Thai evacuees will be travelling with the last two Singapore Airlines flights. The first, SQ 493 Flight carrying 124 of them, is scheduled to leave Cairo, Egypt's capital, on August 29 at 10:40am (local time), making a stopover in Singapore for a transfer to the SQ 972 Flight on August 30 and arriving at Thailand's main Suvarnabhumi International Airport at 11:05am on the same day. Another 52 Thai people will board the SQ 493 Flight leaving Cairo on August 31 at 10:40am (local time), making a stopover in Singapore for a transfer to the SQ 972 Flight on September 1 at 5:50am and arriving at the Suvarnabhumi Airport at 11:05am on the same day. The senior official reassured that assistance will also be rendered to the remaining Thai citizens in Egypt, as instructed by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, if they want to return home. (TNA)

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