3 more bodies found in Thai boat disaster

BANGKOK: Thai rescue workers pulled three more bodies from the Andaman Sea, officials said yesterday, as the task of identifying more than 40 victims gets underway following a boat accident off Phuket last week. “Three more bodies were found. One found near Phi Phi island,” the commander of Naval Area 3 said. The boat, the Phoenix, went down off Phuket on Thursday with 101 people on board, including 89 tourists, all but two of them from China. Twelve Thai crew were also on board.