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One Thai worker killed in air strike in Gaza Strip, body to be sent home

BANGKOK, July 24 (TNA) - A Thai worker has been confirmed killed in an air strike in Gaza Strip and his body will be soon sent home. Sumet Mahosot, Director-General of the Department of Employment, under the Thai Ministry of Labour, told journalists on Thursday that his department is coordinating with Israeli authorities and the family of the Thai worker in sending his body home. The 36-year-old Thai worker, Narakorn Kittiyangkul, was first seriously injured in the air raid in Gaza Strip at around noon on July 23 (local time) and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. Narakorn, a native of Nan Province in the Thai North, traveled to work in an Israeli farm industrial estate on June 24, 2014, just days before ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas erupted in Gaza Strip on July 8. His body will be flown from Israel to his home province with a stopover at Thailand's Main Suvarnabhumi International Airport. Initially, Sumet said, the family of the dead Thai worker will receive a 40,000-baht financial assistance from an official fund set up to assist Thai nationals working abroad, while assistance from Israel has been sought for his family by the Thai Embassy to Israel. Sumet revealed that his department has, in the meantime, requested employers in Israel to allow over 4,000 Thai workers stop working temporarily and to move to safe places for the time being, about 10-20 kilometres from Gaza Strip. The Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs acknowledged, meanwhile, that the Thai Embassy to Israel has closely monitored around the clock the updated situation in Gaza Strip, where fighting between Israeli and Hamas forces has killed about 700 victims and wounded over 4,100 others so far, although there has been no plan to evacuate Thai workers from Israel. There are now about a total of 25,000 Thai workers in Israel, 38 of them have asked to be moved from violence-prone areas. (TNA)

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