Thailand’s navy deployed warships and helicopters on Monday to try and discover 33 marines lacking after a corvette sank in a single day in uneven waters withinside the Gulf of Thailand, the military said.
Three military vessels and helicopters have been despatched to locate the lacking off Prachuap Khiri Khan province, south of Bangkok, after the HTMS Sukhothai warship suffered an engine malfunction and went down simply earlier than middle of the night approximately 20 nautical miles off the coast.
An in a single day rescue undertaking in awful climate secured seventy three of the 106 humans aboard, the military said, with the closing 33 compelled to desert deliver.
The military published pictures and video pictures on its Twitter account displaying a set of employees in orange vests in a black inflatable raft transferring farfar from a deliver in darkness as waves swelled round it. It changed into now no longer right now clean what number of rafts have been deployed.
The Sukhothai, a US-constructed corvette in use considering 1987, changed into hit through robust waves on Sunday, forcing it to tilt to 1 aspect earlier than turning into flooded with seawater, military spokesperson Admiral Pogkrong Monthardpalin said.
A photo shared through the military confirmed the gray vessel flipped over onto its aspect, even as every other photo on a scanner display confirmed the bow of the deliver and a gun turret poking out above the waterline because it went down.