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Thai hostage recalls beatings and bleakness

Anucha Angkaew, a farm worker who was abducted by Hamas while working in Israel in October and spent 50 days in captivity in Gaza, sits in front of his family home in Don Pila, Udon Thani. (Photo: Reuters)

UDON THANI – When farm labourer Anucha Angkaew scrambled out of the bunker where he had been sheltering from rockets on Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip around 7.30am on Oct 7, he expected to see Israeli soldiers.

Instead, Anucha and his five Thai colleagues were accosted by 10 armed militants, whom he identified as Hamas by the Palestine flags on their sleeves.

“We shouted ‘Thailand, Thailand’,” said…

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