More than 300 Thais will be airlifted from Egypt on Thursday on a charter flight and will arrive in Bangkok on Friday.
Cairo's Tahrir Square is partially reopened to traffic as a handful of tents of opponents to Egypt's deposed president Mohammed Morsi remain on the centre island on Tuesday. (AFP photo)
The Thai embassy in Cairo will charter a Boeing 777-300 from Egypt Air to move 322 students and 10 other workers out of the Egyptian capital to escape the uncertain political situation in the northern African country, Nuttavudh Photisaro, deputy permanent secretary for foreign affairs, said on Wednesday after a meeting of officials from various agencies on the evacuation plan.
Flight MS3000 is scheduled to land at Don Mueang airport at 8.15am on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Their families, relatives and friends can check the lists of evacuees from the centre at 02 575 1047-9.
Thai ambassador to Egypt Chalit Manitayakul told the Bangkok Post by phone that the situation in Cairo was improving after chaos over the past three days which saw protests around the city. But the protesters had moved to the city's outskirts, he said.
The embassy decided to send more Thai students home due to continuing concern about their safety as most of their homes were close to the protest sites and there was a fear of crime.
Another 164 Thai students in Egypt are also scheduled to leave later by commercial flights, Mr Chalit said.
An airlift involving three charter flights on Monday and Tuesday took 602 Thais back to the country via Dubai.
In Cairo, Egyptian forces overnight arrested two more Muslim Brotherhood officials, a top preacher and a spokesman for the group, military and security sources told AFP on Wednesday.
Preacher Safwat Hegazy was arrested close to Egypt's border with Libya in the west of the country, a military source said.
Mr Hegazy had been on the run after a warrant was issued for his arrest following last month's ouster of president Mohamed Morsi, a Brotherhood member.
Mourad Ali, a spokesman for the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party, was "arrested at Cairo airport as he tried to leave for Italy", a security source said.
An airport source said Mr Ali, whose name figured on a no-fly list, had "shaved his beard and was wearing casual clothes".
The latest arrests came after Brotherhood supreme guide Mohamed Badie was detained on Tuesday morning.
In July, authorities issued some 300 detention orders and arrest warrants against members of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Dozens of their members have been rounded up since last week and hundreds killed in the violent dispersal of pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo.