Search for missing passengers from a sunken boat called off after 28th victim found

 

 

AYUTTHAYA: -- Search and rescue workers have called off their search for missing passengers of a Muslim pilgrimage boat in the Chao Phraya river in Ayutthaya province after the 28th and last victim was plucked from the river on Tuesday.

 

The last victim was identified as Mrs Thongbai Khantharak, 89.

 

Mr Udomsak Khaonuna, head of Ayutthaya office of public disaster prevention and mitigation, said that officials had been notified by a Muslim religious leader that all the 28 drowning victims had been accounted for.

 

He said he had checked with police and local administration officials that a two-year old boy, Apinan Saengkham, who was reported missing, might be a misunderstanding because there was no one with that name in the official census.

 

The two-day search was called off late Tuesday with the total number of death toll from the boat accident being put at 28, 46 others were injured.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/search-missing-passengers-sunken-boat-called-off-28th-victim-found/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2016-09-21

 

AYUTTHAYA

Boat tragedy blamed on submerged pole in river

The Nation 

 

Marine Department officials and rescue workers yesterday use a crane to try to retrieve the ferry Sombatmongkonchai, which capsized in the Chao Phraya River in Ayutthaya province on Sunday, resulting in 27 deaths and two missing persons. Photo Watcharacha

 

Plus overcrowding, lack of life vests; toll rises to 28

 

AYUTTHAYA: -- OVERCROWDING, the lack of sufficient life vests and a submerged pole in the river were factors in Sunday's boat accident in the Chao Phaya River in the province of Ayutthaya, the Cabinet heard yesterday.

 

Government Spokesman Maj-General Sansern Kaewkamnerd said Transport Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith had informed the Cabinet

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Boat-tragedy-blamed-on-submerged-pole-in-river-30295812.html

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-09-21

28 dead out of around 100 passengers is a hell of a death toll. every passenger needs to be wearing a life jacket or confiscation of the boat and jailing of the captain and staff.  easier to blame some sunken obstacle. wonder if it will be removed.