Cha-Am: Search on after three people go missing when two boats capsized

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77kaoded reported that the mayor of Cha-Am was coordinating a search and the district chief had set up a command center after two boats capsized in the early hours of Thursday morning.

 

Four vessels had set off to go squid fishing the previous evening but a storm hit around 4-5 am.

 

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Three people were missing - two men and a woman.

 

One may told how his wife - who was wearing a life jacket - fell into the water. He managed to grab a drum and clambered into another boat to safety but she disappeared in the early morning gloom. 

 

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The names of the boats were Bell Fah and Choke Sap Preeda. 

 

The incident happened seven nautical miles off the Bang Sai Noi area of Cha-Am, Phetchaburi. 

 

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