UPDATE: Phuket Speedboat crash: 2 tourists dead, 36 injured
Two speed boats collided in the sea off of Phuket. Two dead & 36 injured among mostly Korean & Chinese passengers.
UPDATE
Phuket speedboat collision: 2 dead, 36 injured in 2nd tourist boating accident this week
PHUKET - The two tourists killed in a collision between two fully loaded speedboat ferries in the sea off Phuket were both Chinese nationals, Phuket governor Chamroen Thippyawpongthada said on Wednesday afternoon.He also said 36 other tourists were injured, an increase on the previously reported figure of 26.
The two boats, carrying 62 Chinese and South Korean tourists, collided in the Hin Musang (Musang Rock) area around 11.45am on Wednesday.
There were a total of 26 tourists on board the speedboat Chor Hongfa 20 and 36 tourists on the Chollakit 856.
The boats were heading from Phuket for Ao Phangnga national park in Phangna and Phi Phi island in Krabi.
The two people killed were Chinese passengers on the Chollakit 856, which sank after the collision.
The dead man was identified as Liang Grianfu and the dead woman as Yan Yang.
Of the 36 tourists treated for injuries, 34 of them were from the Chollakit 856.
The injured were being treated at Vachira Phuket Hospital, Mission Phuket Hospital, and a hospital run by the Phuket provincial administration organisation.
It was the second fatal boating accident involving tourists in less than a week.
On Sunday 28 people were injured when a speedboat carrying passengers back from an evening music concert on the island of Koh Samet smashed into a container ship.
Last month on May 27 at least three were killed in a Koh Samui speedboat tragedy.
45 passengers in the speedboat were not wearing life jackets when the speedboat overturned in wind-whipped seas off of Koh Samui (see here).
(Source: Breaking News here)
Two speedboats collided in the sea off Phuket on Wednesday. Two tourists were killed and many others injured. (Source: Post Today)
BOATING SAFETY & TOURISM
Phuket Speedboat crash: 2 tourists dead, 26 injured
8/06/2016
Achadtaya Chuenniran
Two speedboats carrying foreign tourists collided in the sea off Phuket around noon on Wednesday.
Two tourists, one man and one woman, were killed and 26 were injured with seven severely injured.
The passengers were mainly Chinese and South Koreans.
Injured tourists taken to a pier in Phuket before being transferred to hospitals following the fatal collision between two speedboats in the sea off Phuket on Wednesday. Two tourists were killed. (Photo by Phuket disaster alert centre via Achadtaya Chuenniran)
The two boats were both heading from Phuket to the Phi Phi islands off the coast of Krabi province (Thai: เธซเธกเธนเนเน€เธเธฒเธฐเธเธตเธเธต, Mu Koh Phi Phi).
The collision occurred shortly after the two speedboats left the Koh Khai Nok and Koh Khiew islands near Phuket in an area known as Konghin Musang (Musang Rock).
The speedboat named Hongfa 333 carrying 26 tourists collided with the speedboat Chollakit, carrying 36 passengers.
One media report said the boats crashed head-on but this could not be confirmed.
Marine police and rescue workers were rushed out to sea to help the tourists.
The tourists were then taken to the Asia Marina and Ratsada piers in Phuket.
All injured passengers were taken to Phuket hospitals.
[Note: The incident reportedly happened near the Moosang Rocks, between Koh Dokmai and Phi Phi Island, about 30 nautical miles from Phuket, according to Marine police.]
Google Earth image of sea near speedboat crash area. The incident reportedly happened near the Moosang Rocks, between Koh Dokmai and Phi Phi Island, about 30 nautical miles from Phuket. Koh Dokmaii is shown by red marker in map. (source: Google Earth)
PATTAYA SPEEDBOAT DRIVER SHOOTOUT
In related speedboat news, there was a shootout between Pattaya speedboat drivers in front of a house in Soi Sukhumvit 60, Pattaya at about 10pm yesterday (June 7).
One Pattaya speedboat driver received a phone call from another Pattaya speedboat driver who was insulting and threatening to him.
The first speedboat driver challenged the second speedboat driver to a duel.
In response to this challenge, the other speedboat driver drove past his house with guns and began shooting randomly until he ran out of bullets.
This according to a statement allegedly given to police (see here).
http://pattayaone.net/pattaya-news/225038/pattaya-speedboat-drivers-war-shootout-sukhumvit-road/
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1004933/2-tourists-killed-26-hurt-in-phuket-phi-phi-speedboat-crash
http://www.thephuketnews.com/two-dead-and-more-than-50-injured-in-speedboat-collision-off-phuket-57774.php#Vdfl1hv2i4f46eqc.99
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