Compensation for families
The families of the three Thai workers burned to death on Monday on a South Korean vegetable farm will each receive Bt40,000 from a fund supported by the Labour Ministry.
The victims were identified as Wutthichai Sukthavee, Prapas Phonanan and Itthipol Chuachainat.Labour Minister Apai Chandanachulaka said yesterday the trio worked in South Korea legally, then changed jobs when their contracts expired. Given they went overseas with government assistance, each family was entitled to Bt40,000 in compensation, he said. The labour adviser at the Thai embassy in Seoul had been asked to negotiate with the victims' employers for compensation for the families on humanitarian grounds and also to return their remains to Thailand for religious rites according to the families' wishes, he said. The three men, from the northeastern province of Chaiyaphum and Phitsanulok in the North, reportedly died when a shipping container in which they were sleeping caught on fire after a short-circuit caused by overheated electric cooking equipment.
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