4,000 Thai workers to be evacuated from Libya by chartered ship

TUNISIA, March 3 – Some 4,000 Thai workers will be evacuated from Libya by a ship now docked in the port of Tripoli for Tunisia where they will catch planes back to Thailand, with the first batch of the group to arrive at Suvarnabhumi airport on Saturday, according to Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Chavanond Intarakomalyasut.

Mr Chavanond, now in Tunisia, said the ministry had chartered two trips by ocean ferries from Italy to pick up Thais workers in Libya, with plans to evacuate some 4,000 Thais.

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