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2 South Korean tourists missing in Thai boat collision

PHUKET — Two tourists from South Korea are missing after a boat carrying them and about two dozen others collided with a fishing vessel near Thailand’s southern resort of Phuket yesterday (Oct 19), Thai police said.

Thai rescue workers  move  a injured tourist on stretcher to hospital  after a fishing boat crashed with a speed boat, carrying tourists from Koh Phi Phi island to a pier in Phuket. Thailand Sunday  Oct 19, 2014. 27 tourists injured and two are  missing. Photo: AP

Thai rescue workers move a injured tourist on stretcher to hospital after a fishing boat crashed with a speed boat, carrying tourists from Koh Phi Phi island to a pier in Phuket. Thailand Sunday Oct 19, 2014. 27 tourists injured and two are missing. Photo: AP

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PHUKET — Two tourists from South Korea are missing after a boat carrying them and about two dozen others collided with a fishing vessel near Thailand’s southern resort of Phuket yesterday (Oct 19), Thai police said.

The tourist speedboat was carrying 34 people and three crew members from Phi Phi island when it hit the fishing vessel, said police Col Phumin Poompanmoung.

Marine police were able to rescue 27 of those aboard the tourist boat and villagers on boats retrieved eight others, but a man and a woman from South Korea are still missing.

Authorities said some of the tourists, who were mostly Chinese but included four Koreans and two Britons, suffered broken bones and internal injuries. Police were holding the speedboat’s crew and the fishing boat’s captain for questioning.

This is the second fatal boat accident this month, after two Indian tourists drowned on Oct 5 when the boat they were in capsized in bad weather, also along Thailand’s southern Andaman Sea coast. The boat’s operator was subsequently charged with reckless operation of a vehicle.

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