Tragedy at Sea near Koh Samui

[cracker1]

Can any one provide up dated news regarding the tragic sinking of the tourist boat returning from Angtong to Samui this afternoon ?

[evadgib]

http://www.samuitimes.com/breaking-32-foreign-tourists-in-a-speed-boat-accident-in-samui/

More on Samui Community FB page

[Bkk Brian]

Take a look at this twitter feed, up to date news https://twitter.com/RichardBarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

from Richard Barrows

[Carib]

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/164953

[Happy Grumpy]

RiP.

Let's hope the death toll remains at 2, but doesn't seem likely.

http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/content/164953

From this linked newspage. Bottom right corner:

[Nicolas32]

All over the UK Press this story ... It's amazing how the news in Thailand is being slow about this right now ..

Thailand speedboat crash: One British woman dead and another injured as packed tourist boat capsizes Boat transporting tourists hit by huge wave as it travels to popular island Koh Samui

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7177469/Two-feared-dead-and-five-missing-as-packed-tourist-boat-capsizes-in-Thailand-with-Brits-on-board.html

[ourmanflint]

All over the UK Press this story ... It's amazing how the news in Thailand is being slow about this right now ..

Thailand speedboat crash: One British woman dead and another injured as packed tourist boat capsizes Boat transporting tourists hit by huge wave as it travels to popular island Koh Samui

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/7177469/Two-feared-dead-and-five-missing-as-packed-tourist-boat-capsizes-in-Thailand-with-Brits-on-board.html

They haven't worked out how to spin it yet.

[Happy Grumpy]

Front page of Sky News now too.

[samuijimmy]

Story running here:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/920515-32-foreign-tourists-in-a-speedboat-accident-in-samui/

We'll keep it to one thread...

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