Bangkok, 10 mar. (Apcom) - E' stato ritrovato oggi il corpo di una donna europea, uno dei sei turisti vittime del naufragio di un battello al largo di Phuket, in Thailandia. "Una delle squadre di soccorso ha ritrovato il cadavere di una donna europea nei pressi del luogo del naufragio", ha riferito un agente della polizia marittima tailandese.
Il battello, che trasportava 30 persone di cui 19 turisti, è naufragato domenica a causa del maltempo. 23 passeggeri e la maggioranza dei membri dell'equipaggio sono stati soccorsi, ma due svizzeri, due austriaci, un giapponese, un tedesco e un tailandese sono invece scomparsi.
Body of sunken dive vessel victim identified
http://www.phuketgazette.net
PHUKET CITY: The identity of the female tourist whose body was recovered by a Royal Thai Navy vessel this morning has been confirmed as that of Austrian national Gabrielle Jetzinger, a source at the Phuket office of the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM-Phuket) has revealed.
Ms Jetzinger was among seven passengers still listed as missing after the dive vessel Choke Somboon 19 (“Perfect Luck 19”) sank in a sea squall late on Sunday night.
Local fishermen helped Marine Police pick up 23 survivors found floating adrift in an inflatable life raft near the site of the incident at about 2 am on Monday.
Six other people – five of them foreigners – remain among the missing: Yuba Hirotsuga (Japan); Klaus Konradder and Monika Schuster (Austria); Sibylle Bucher and Rolf Niederberge (Switzerland); and Thai national Jumpa “Gen” Sorntat, the boat’s cook.
Ms Jetzinger’s body, spotted at about 10:30 am by an airplane involved in the ongoing search-and-rescue operation, is now being held at Vachira Phuket Hospital.
Ms Jetzinger’s body was not in a life jacket at the time of its recovery.
The search-and-rescue effort will be suspended at dusk today and resume at daybreak tomorrow.
