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Tourist boat packed with 55 people smashes into trawler and sinks off Thai coast
The speedboat's front was torn off and it sank after colliding with a trawler, injuring 22 including 19 foreign tourists, officials said.
- On Sunday, the tourist speedboat Korawich Marine 888 carrying 52 passengers and three crew collided with the fishing trawler Pichai Samut 1, its front torn off as it overturned and sank in the Andaman Sea near the Phi-Phi Islands.
- Authorities are probing speed, visibility and navigation factors after officials said the fishing trawler Pichai Samut 1 was undamaged while Korawich Marine 888 suffered catastrophic structural failure.
- Initial reports counted at least 12 injuries and one death, while other tallies put the injured at at least 22, including 19 foreign tourists and three crew from Thailand, with Elizaveta S, reported 18-year-old tourist , confirmed dead.
- Emergency services rushed in and pulled dozens to safety, with rescue workers treating patients at coastal treatment sites near the crash as witnesses at Phi-Phi Islands described panic.
- In one of Thailand's busiest boating corridors, Thailand's southern Andaman coast sees dozens of speedboats operating daily between Phuket, Krabi and the Phi-Phi Islands near Koh Gai Island.
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