PUBLISHED: 6 May 2024 at 04: 30
Trang: According to officials, an investigation is still being conducted following a boat incident in the Sikao district that resulted in the death of a 68-year-old woman and the injury of some tourists.
The accident took place late on Saturday evening, when a longer- tail holiday ship carrying 14 people, including four children, rejected near Pak Meng gate, they said.
When the boat capsized and abruptly began listing off Trang after returning from a trip in the ocean. Luckily, the travellers ashore, who were wearing life vests, were spotted by the staff of a nearby boat, who pulled them out of the ocean.
When they reached the shore, the wounded were taken to Sikao Hospital, where one of them, identified simply Atchara, a 68- year- aged woman from Songkhla’s Helmet Yai district, was pronounced dead. The Trang Doctor assigned one of the injured.
According to authorities, the ship was carrying 11 tourists– seven adults and four children– a journey guide, a ship operator and a boatman. A combined army of police from Sikao place, tourism officers, marine and park authorities inspected the picture.
The ship operator, identified only as Noppadon, 50, told police that as the ship was approaching the wharf, the rudder handle rope snapped, sending the tourists to one side of the boat, which caused the boat to bend and reverse.
Police, along with forensic experts and marine personnel, were examining the boat’s wreckage to assess its condition prior to the incident, according to Trang governor Songkrod Sawangwong.