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800 Burmese workers "killed in catastrophe"
30 December 2004 (Bangkok Post) - About 800 Burmese workers are believed to have died in Sunday's tsunami disaster in the South.
Surapong Kongchanthuek, deputy chairman of the Law Society of Thailand's committee on human rights for stateless and displaced people, said he had obtained confirmation that around 200 Burmese workers, mostly fishing boat crewmen, had died in Phangnga's Takua Pa district and about 1,500 others were listed as missing.
He had no exact figures of Burmese killed and missing in the five other tsunami-ravaged provinces.
But his rough estimate was about 800 deaths, based on the fact there were 47,501 Burmese workers in Ranong, 36,483 in Phuket, 29,730 in Phangnga, 8,000 in Trang, 3,000 in Satun and 3,000 in Krabi.
However, he said only 22,504 were registered with the Labour Ministry.
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