NAKHON SAWAN: An elderly man who had mistakenly been declared dead since 1997 has finally been issued a new national identity card after having lived a miserable life without an ID for many years, denied the welfare rights of a Thai citizen.
Ong-art Boonyarit, 65, of Moo 3 village in tambon Phra Non of Nakhon Sawan's Muang district, said he was shocked when one day in late 2013 he went to the district office to have his ID extended, and was told by officials that they could not do that because was on official record as being dead.
