According to the Jiangsu public news channel "Good Morning Jiangsu", on the afternoon of the 5th local time, two cruise ships carrying a total of 127 Chinese tourists had a capsizing accident on Coral Island and Meituong Island in Phuket Province, Thailand. According to the latest news, Thai search and rescue personnel found 26 bodies in the shipwreck, plus 14 bodies found at sea before, 40 people have been unfortunately killed, and thailand is continuing to carry out search and rescue.
【Victims rose to 40】
According to the local volunteer tourism police in Phuket, the rescue ship has used sonar to detect the location of the wreck in the sea area of the incident, and there are currently two groups of divers launched to search. It is understood that there was a storm in the local area at the time of the incident.
The local government has issued many warnings of wind and waves, and cruise ships still go to sea during high winds and waves, and the specific reasons are yet to be investigated. Most of the Chinese tourists on the two ships are day trip tourists and employees and family members of a domestic company.
【Wuxi tourists experience the storm "a moment of horror"】
This morning, the reporter contacted Mr. Shen, a tourist in Wuxi who had experienced the storm, and he said that the weather had been very good that day, but when he returned home, the storm suddenly struck.
Mr. Shen said: "As soon as I came out, I saw a large dark cloud in front of me, and I couldn't see the edge. The return voyage lasted only ten minutes, and as the dark clouds approached the ship, there began to be windy and rainy. It was open for about fifteen minutes again, and the rain was heavier. When the wind and waves were at their strongest, the hull was tilted nearly ninety degrees, and it was all erect. ”
The sudden arrival of the fierce wind and rain made the ships on the sea feel caught off guard, Mr. Shen said, fortunately, their captain was more experienced, and chose to take a detour after seeing the situation was not right, the original one-hour journey, after three hours of bumps, finally returned to the shore, and the ship that did not detour had an accident.
According to Thai media reports, Thai Deputy Prime Minister Ba Wei said on the afternoon of the 6th that the captain and owner of the shipwrecked ship in Phuket waters should be held responsible for the matter and warned that legal action would be taken. From July 4 to 6, the Thai Meteorological Agency issued a meteorological warning to prohibit the departure of ships in Phuket waters.
According to the Chinese Consulate General in Songkhla, Thailand, 77 tourists have been rescued, of which 5 were injured and underwent surgery, and 6 were hospitalized for observation. The Consulate General in Songkhla will do a good job in the follow-up work, not give up any hope of search and rescue, and go all out to provide assistance to Chinese tourists and their families. According to the news of Jiangsu Provincial Tourism Bureau this afternoon, there is no information on the death of Jiangsu tourists at present, and in the next step, they will check the information of tourists leaving Jiangsu port to Phuket, and do their best to verify and understand the situation of Jiangsu tourists.
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