BAGUIO CITY — A group of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), led by the Alliance of Cordillera OFWs in Thailand, called on concerned national government agencies to be aggressive in seeking justice to their colleagues who have been victims of hit and run accidents in the country’s Southeast Asian neighbor for the sake of their loved ones.

The group, in a press statement, said the recent death of a 24-year old OFW from Benguet because of an alleged hit-and-run incident should serve as a wakeup call to concerned government agencies to work hard to ensure that victims would be given justice and the culprits arrested and charged.

Because of a series of unsolved hit-and-run accidents in Thailand where the victims are OFWs, the group expressed fear that more families of OFWs in the different parts of the country will suffer the burden of the loss of their relatives who are trying their luck just to give their families greener pasture.

Cheryl Ambucay Depnag, a 24 year-old teacher who hails from Sayangan, Atok, Benguet, was one of the victims of the hit-and-run incidents when she met the accident on November 10, 2009, at Kabinburi, Thailand.

She was taken to Chaopraya Aphaipubet Hospital in Prachinburi province as the local hospital has no capacity to deal with head injuries.