Kokong town is in the north of Shan state near the border with China, where fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups of the Brotherhood Alliance has been going on since last month.
Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said that Thai officials had been coordinating with their Myanmar counterparts to bring the stranded Thai workers in Laukkaing home as soon as possible.
The ministry had earlier reported that over 200 Thais were stranded amid the ongoing clashes after being conned into working for a Chinese call-centre gang in Laukkaing.
The repatriation mission, led by the Royal Thai Army, is using buses to transport the Thais from Laukkaing to Nanteng and then to Kengtung in Shan state, before dropping them off in Tachileik from where they can enter Thailand via the Mae Sai border checkpoint.
Parnpree said the ministry’s permanent secretary, Sarun…
