PHUKET, Thailand, July 9, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – Thailand’s Phuket Governor
Norraphat Plodthong said on Monday that after a joint check with the Chinese
side, there were a total of 89 passengers, 87 Chinese among them, on the
capsized boat “Phoenix.”
The governor told Xinhua that four people did not board the boat so there
were actually only 89 passengers aboard when the “Phoenix” and another
tourist boat capsized in rough seas off the southern Thai resort island of
Phuket on Thursday.
Thai authorities said previously that a total of 105 passengers were on
board “Phoenix” with 93 passengers, a tour guide and 11 crew members.
He said among them, 37 people had been rescued, 41 bodies had been
retrieved and a body was pressed by the sunken boat to the seabed.
Among the rest 10 people unaccounted for, five of them were confirmed to
be alive and five of them were still missing.