MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Thai government has this week evacuated second batch of its fishermen stranded in Somalia barely a month after 18 Thai fishermen saved from waters of Horn of Africa nation.
According to the Thai Labour Ministry, the fishermen who are 14 in number returned home safely.
Thai Labour Minister M.R. Chatumongkol Sonakul said authorities were investigating the incident so that all alleged wrongdoers will be brought to justice.
The Minister said the unidentified Thai employer who had allegedly victimized the fishermen had run a fishing business in Iran and sold both fishing boats to a Somali businessman only for the crewmembers to become stranded and be left unemployed.
Prior to the arrival of these fishermen, the Thai government returned a group of 18 others who had been employed on the Vadani 1 fishing boat and were returned to Thailand earlier.
According to the ministry, a total of 42 Thai workers were lured by a Thai employer into being hired as crewmembers aboard fishing boats off Somalia, but their wages weren’t paid over the last five months.
The minister vowed that his ministry will launch an investigation into the incident and brought the perpetrators of this deal to the justice.
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