13 dead in Phuket landslide
published : 26 Aug 2024 at 08:08
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Achadthaya Chuenniran
The bodies of all 13 missing victims have been found after a landslide on Phuket.
Authorities stopped the search for victims in the mud on Saturday afternoon after the bodies of the last three missing people were found and the death toll was 13. All were workers or visitors from outside Phuket.
The landslide hit three sub-districts of Phuket: Chalong, Karon and Rawai. The disaster affected 209 families in nine villages. Apart from the dead, the disaster also injured 19 others, three of whom remained at hospital on Sunday.
Of the 13 dead victims, nine were Myanmar workers. The four other victims were a Russian couple and two Thai women.
Officials were raising donations including food, drinking water, clothes and money to help victims.
Heavy downpours hit Phuket from late Thursday night. The landslide started at the end of Soi Patak 2 Road behind Wat Kata at about 5am on Friday. It hit a hotel, houses and workers’ living quarters.
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- authority (noun): a person or government agency who has the power to make decisions or enforce the law - เจ้าหน้าที่ผู้มีอำนาจ
- death toll: the number of people killed - ยอดผู้เสียชีวิต
- disaster: an extremely bad situation - ความโชคร้าย
- donations (noun): money or goods that you give to an organisation, especially one that helps people - เงินหรือสิ่งของบริจาค
- downpour: a lot of rain in a short time - ฝนตกหนักมาก, พายุฝน
- injured (adj): hurt in an accident, natural disaster, attack, etc. - ได้รับบาดเจ็บ
- landslide: a mass of rock and earth moving suddenly and quickly down a steep slope - แผ่นดินถล่ม
- living quarters: rooms that are provided for people (monks, soldiers, workers, servants, etc.) to live in - ที่พักอาศัย
- officials: people who have the power to make decisions or enforce the law - เจ้าหน้าที่ผู้มีอำนาจ
- victims : people who are killed injured or harmed in some way from an accident, natural disaster, crime, etc. - เหยื่อผู้เคราะห์ร้าย