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More cases of foreigners stranded in Cambodia because of lockdowns elsewhere, this time a Kiwi


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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand has been reported by a local newspaper there that several citizens of there are stranded in Cambodia because of lockdowns in neighbouring countries and flight cancellations. Newshub report showcased a New Zealander who was trapped in Cambodia, Yahya Sheikha.

 

Sheikha is a Syrian refugee who was resettled in New Zealand and was reportedly trapped in Cambodia after the Thai-Cambodia land borders were shuttered because of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper said that Sheikha’s family, comprising five children and wife in Wellington are desperate to get him back. They were the first Syrian refugees to be resettled in New Zealand.

 

Yahya Sheikha flew to Thailand to visit family and then he went by land to Cambodia to visit friends. But while there Thailand’s border was closed, and he couldn’t get out of Cambodia. “So I am stuck here, I can’t do anything,” he was reported by Newshub as saying.

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50717443/more-cases-of-foreigners-stranded-in-cambodia-because-of-lockdowns-elsewhere-this-time-a-kiwi/

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9 hours ago, geovalin said:

Yahya Sheikha flew to Thailand to visit family and then he went by land to Cambodia to visit friends.

 

9 hours ago, geovalin said:

The paper said that Sheikha’s family, comprising five children and wife in Wellington are desperate to get him back. They were the first Syrian refugees to be resettled in New Zealand.

Unreported background scenario is more intriguing than any Agatha Christie novel.

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