three ex Charter students killed in crash in Thailand

[intexasatthe moment]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13978749

Terrible news ,so sorry for families and friends .

[EDmummy]

Gosh, that has hit home! My thoughts go out to the families. I heard that the parents of one of the children is going to have to pay a very large sum to have their son repatriated (no travel insurance). Is there anything we can do as a community to help them?

[lillyanginger]

My thoughts are with the families and all their friends. What a terrible terrible accident!

[Frankito]

Respect to those three lads, what a tragic story. :'(

[Eliza.D]

I too would like to offer my deepest sympathy to their family and friends. It is terrible and tragic and my thoughts are with you.

[fatfightersforever]

EDmummy Wrote:

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> Gosh, that has hit home! My thoughts go out to

> the families. I heard that the parents of one of

> the children is going to have to pay a very large

> sum to have their son repatriated (no travel

> insurance). Is there anything we can do as a

> community to help them?

That is so terrible. Will try and find out if this is the case, my son knew them. If so what a lovely thought Edmummy, count me in, what could we do?

[Grotty]

Read about this the morning - can't quite believe it, awful awful news. What a tragedy for them and their families.

[Marmora Man]

Horrible as this is for the boy's parents, friends and teachers - nastier still is a kneejerk, left wing, response by a Guardian writer Kia Abdullah to gap year students with double barreled names, on Twitter.

She has since deleted the offending tweet but it remains available on the web for us to see how unpleasant some people can be.

Guido Fawkes Blog Site

[StraferJack]

Not a guardian writer but an occasional contributer. So is kelvin Mckenzie

It was a shocking piece by her which has drawn universal condemnation, quite rightly

But your point scoring leaves a bad taste in the mouth as well MM

[Dougal Mulldoon]

MM it?s pretty sick of you to use this tragedy to score political points. Very sick.

[kristymac1]

Back to the original post; dreadful, awful news - hearts go out to the families of those young boys.....

[TillieTrotter]

I'm in for contributing time or money. Tragic. And MM and SF show some respect ffs.

[Dougal Mulldoon]

I have contacted the school to see if any kind of fund has been set up and will post here as soon as I find out.

[AnnaAS]

I called Charter yesterday to ask about fund raising but have not heard back. If they cannot help, I would be happy to collect money at my shop, near the school, as I have already had many customers wanting to contribute something. However I would not know where to send the money. Many parents from other schools have kindly offered cash help and I hope somehow something helpful can be done. This is just an awful awful tragedy.

[AnnaAS]

DM- have heard all three are to be repatriated together and there is no immediate need for funds. I hope this is the case.

[EDmummy]

Tanks for the update AnnaAS. I am glad to hear that they will all be repatriated together. Such a terrible time for the families.