One body still trapped in Thai boat

PHUKET: Thai and Chinese rescuers have found one more missing body and divers will attempt to salvage the body trapped underwater in a sunken tourist boat off the coast of the Thai island of Phuket.

Phuket provincial governor Norraphat Plodthong said at the command centre for the search and rescue mission yesterday that so far, 45 bodies had been recovered, among which five had been cremated and two bodies transported back to China after it was requested by their families.

Two tourist boats, the Phoenix and Serenita, were overturned in rough seas on July 5.

All the passengers on board the Serenita

had been saved and all the victims and missing ones were from the Phoenix.

As of noon yesterday, the accident has caused 46 deaths and there is one passenger still missing, according to the governor.