2 Korean Missing, 45 Injured is Speed Boat Accident in Phuket

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.