3 tourists killed in speed boat accident
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THREE foreign women were killed and one other tourist remains missing after a packed speed boat capsized off the popular Thai holiday island of Koh Samui, police said yesterday.
The boat, which was carrying 32 tourists plus four crew, flipped over on Thursday afternoon and tossed its passengers into the sea after it was slammed by a wave near a rocky stretch of coast in the Gulf of Thailand.
The bodies of a 28-year-old British woman and a 29-year-old German woman were retrieved that afternoon, according to local officials, and the body of a third tourist was discovered yesterday morning.
“It was a Chinese woman from Hong Kong in her 30s. Her body was found at 10:30am some 500 meters from the accident site,” said Thanakorn Pattananun, the head of the island’s tourist police.
A team of 50 rescue workers in seven boats were scouring the area for a British man who is still missing, he said.
Police have charged the Thai captain of the Ang Thong Explorer speedboat with negligence that led to deaths and injuries.
“Weather was the cause of the accident because it created high waves, but the boat was also being driven at a high speed,” said Apichart Boonsriro, commander of Surat Thani provincial police.
The speed boat was returning the tourists from a trip to a string of nearby islands and was only a few meters from a pier when it capsized, trapping some of the passengers under its hull.
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