Rescue workers and hospital staff, prepared to provide immediate medical care, are waiting with officials at Rassada Pier.
PHUKET – A Korean, man and woman are missing and 45 others are injured after a speedboat crashed into a fishing trawler about five nautical miles off Yao Yai island on Sunday evening, Phuket Marine Police Reported.
Chief of the Marine Police Division’s sub-division 8,Pol Col Phumin Phumpanmuang reported the speedboat, owned by Seastar Company was taking tourists from Phi Phi island in Krabi to Phuket.
A team of police and rescuers were still trying to find the two missing tourists.
Anupong Arsarat, a former administrative official on Yao Yai island, said the speedboat operated by Mr Surat Matorot, was likely to have been traveling at high speed despite heavy rain causing poor visibility.