15 GIRLS DROWN
Pleasure Boat Capsizes (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) BANGKOK, Dec. 4. Fifteen young girl students were drowned and 17 others missing when a pleasure boat capsized and sank 124 miles south of Bangkok yesterday. The 32 students, all from Bangkok secretarial schools, were travelling by a fishing boat to an island off Rayong in the Gulf of Thailand. Reports reaching Bangkok said a sudden storm capsized the boat. The students were thrown intoWhe water. Eight of the students made it to the shore. A fleet of fishing boats from a nearby village picked up 15 bodies.
Up to last night, the other 17, all younger than 20, were still unaccounted for. Police have arrested the captain of the boat
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31544, 5 December 1967, Page 17
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