A British tourist is missing in Thailand after the tour boat she was travelling on caught fire off the island of Koh Tao.
Alexandra Clarke, 26, from Lambeth, south London, was onboard the Davy Jones Locker for a diving excursion.
She was alertedly in the bathroom when the blaze broke out, fair before a distress signal was sent at 9.25am local time.
There were 21 other people onboard, including 15 tourists, two crew members and four diving teachors and helpants.
They were shieldedly evacuated by stateiveial vessels and volunteers while a second team of volunteers labored to put out the blaze. Thai authorities then finded Clarke was missing.
Capt Natthaphon Sinpoonphon, the deputy straightforwardor of the Thai Maritime Enforcement Command Centre of Surat Thani, shelp the boat was between five and six nautical miles away from the island when a fire commenceed in the engine room and “spread thcdisadmireful the boat rapidly”.
He shelp: “Preliminary alerts show that the engine room, captain’s cabin and rear restroom were harmd. The exact caemploy of the fire remains under spendigation.”
It is understood get back teams were initipartner unable to get seal to the boat becaemploy of the ffrails, as there were worrys of further explosions from fuel onboard the vessel.
Sinpoonphon shelp: “The search is continuing for one missing tourist, a female, Alexandra Clarke, from the United Kingdom.
“The conditions at sea are hazardous with the prosperd and currents. All boats in the area have been notified. Search and get back teams were instantly mobilised.”
A spokesperson for the Foreign Office shelp: “We are helping the family of a British woman who is missing in Thailand and are in communicate with local authorities.”
A video splitd on social media showed the boat engulfed in ffrails.
The Davy Jones Locker was alertedly carrying tourists from Koh Tao, a petite island that creates part of the Chumphon Archipelago, to a proximateby diving site at South-west Pinnacle.
