SOURCE: Pattaya City News: May 24th 2007

Illegal Cambodian Construction Worker found dead in Campsite.

On Thursday Afternoon, Police Major Tailert from Dongtan Police Sub-Station on Jomtien Beach was called to a constructor’s campsite in Soi Chayapreuk off Jomtien Beach Road to investigate the death of one of the workers.

The dead man is Mr. Jon aged 31, a Cambodian National who was working at the site with his wife, who explained that the pair had entered Thailand illegally to work in the construction industry about 3 months ago.

Her husband had gone for a sleep during their lunch break and failed to wake up. Police checked the room and body and found nothing suspicious. A post mortem examination is now underway to confirm the cause of death which is expected to be natural causes.

Libya 115 says

Sadly, immigrant workers in Thailand from Laos, Cambodia and Buma are often exploited by Thai bosses. In the past a pile of twenty burnt dead Bumese bodies were found together with burnt old tyres and petrol: Just before their monthly salary of 3,000 baht was due. Suspicious?

SOURCE: Pattaya City News: May 24th 2007

Illegal Cambodian Construction Worker found dead in Campsite.

On Thursday Afternoon, Police Major Tailert from Dongtan Police Sub-Station on Jomtien Beach was called to a constructor’s campsite in Soi Chayapreuk off Jomtien Beach Road to investigate the death of one of the workers.

The dead man is Mr. Jon aged 31, a Cambodian National who was working at the site with his wife, who explained that the pair had entered Thailand illegally to work in the construction industry about 3 months ago.

Her husband had gone for a sleep during their lunch break and failed to wake up. Police checked the room and body and found nothing suspicious. A post mortem examination is now underway to confirm the cause of death which is expected to be natural causes.

Libya 115 says

Sadly, immigrant workers in Thailand from Laos, Cambodia and Buma are often exploited by Thai bosses. In the past a pile of twenty burnt dead Bumese bodies were found together with burnt old tyres and petrol: Just before their monthly salary of 3,000 baht was due. Suspicious?

Suspicious, it stinks, i have a friend who is cambodian and he tells me all too often if passing a building site if they are from cambodia and hel_l say no 30 this month im police will take these poor people away after knowing they havent had a wage for say 3 months cos the boss has sold them out.

my friend has been sold before in trang near krabi to some fishermen but he was a lucky one!

makes ya think in this day and age and cant do nothing to help these very poor but very nice people!