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Search continues off Phuket for speedboat crash victims

Search continues off Phuket for speedboat crash victims

The search resumed on Monday for two South Korean tourists who were still missing after their speedboat crashed into a fishing vessel yesterday afternoon.

Several others tourists on the same boat were injured.
Police said the speedboat was carrying around 37 foreign tourists from Phi Phi island to Phuket when it ran into the vessel at around 5pm on Sunday.
The passengers on the boat came from China, Korea, Australia, France, Japan, England and Thailand. They were rescued and some were being treated in hospital for joint dislocations, head injuries and rib fractures
The speedboat was wrecked in the accident and later sank.
The search was suspended yesterday evening after darkness fell.
 
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