Two women missing after bus is washed off road by flash flood

By The Nation

 

 

Two women went missing and 50 people had to be rescued after their bus was washed off a road by a strong flood current in Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Si Chon district late on Tuesday night.

Early Wednesday, Si Chon district chief Yongyuth Jitsamruay led rescuers, police and troops to rescue passengers and the driver of the bus that was swept away by floods in front of the reception home for homeless people in Ban Khao Fai.

 

The rescued people were taken to stay at the Si Chon community hall, where they received checkups from doctors.

 

Yongyuth said Manee Khamkaew, 63, and Chan Khamkaedw, 68, were missing and officials were still searching for them on Wednesday morning.

 

The bus, driven by Wisan Kwaengmek, was rented by residents of Surat Thani’s Tha Chana district to take them to a funeral in Tha Sala in Nakhon Si Thammarat.

 

While the bus was returning to Surat Thani, it slipped off the flooded road and was swept away by a strong current.

 

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Women’s bodies found after bus hit by flood

By The Nation

 

 

The bodies of the two women who went missing after their bus was washed off a road in Nakhon Si Thammarat were found on Wednesday morning.

The bodies of Manee Khamkaew, 63, and Chan Khamkaedw, 68, were found at 9.30am about 300 metres from the spot where their bus was washed off the road in Si Schon district on Tuesday night.

 

The bus, driven by Wisan Kwaengmek, was chartered to by residents of Surat Thani’s Tha Chana district to take them to a funeral in Nakhon Si Thammara’s Tha Sala.

 

While the bus was returning to Surat Thani, it slid from the roadside on the flooded part of the road in front of a reception home for homeless people in Ban Khao Fai and was swept away by run-off at 11pm on Tuesday.

 

Officials managed to rescue the bus driver and 49 passengers but the two women went.

 

The floodwaters subsided to a shallow level in the morning.

 

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