Eight students and one teacher missing, while ESF anxiously waits to hear from 40 students
Some students were offered counselling and support yesterday as the school term resumed on a sombre note with eight pupils and a teacher confirmed missing after the rolls were called.
The English Schools Foundation also said after registers were checked that one school could not yet account for the whereabouts of 40 students.
The Education and Manpower Bureau received reports of eight students and one teacher suspected missing from different schools.
Six of the students had already been identified as missing by the Immigration Department or by media reports.
Marco Lam Man-ngo, 13, a Form Two student from St Joseph's College; Lo Chi-ping, in Primary Four at Pui Ching Primary School; and brothers Cheng Tin-yee, five, and Cheng Tin-ho, three, from Victoria (South Horizons) International Kindergarten, were all confirmed by their schools to be missing in Thailand along with their families. Brother and sister Yvette and Christopher Dreher were also missing when the rolls were called.