US Embassy offers sympathy over Thai students presumed dead

In its two-sentence statement, the Embassy said: “We are closely following the situation and express our heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the two Thai students involved in this tragic accident in California.”
The US Embassy in Bangkok had issued visas for family members of the students who have travelled to California, read the statement.
The embassy issued the statement after a relative of one of the two Thai students presumed killed in a car crash in the United States applied for entry visas for members of a Thai rescue team.
Ekkachai Taidecha, the uncle of Bhakapon Chairattanasongporn, 28, said Thai rescuers should have a chance to handle the case as US authorities had failed to retrieve the students’ bodies.