Twelve tourists, including UK citizens, were injured in a horror speedboat crash that killed the captain in southern Thailand yesterday (December 18).<br /><br />The speedboat, named Choksupasarn, had 49 people on board including 45 tourists - left AA Marina pier in Phuket around 10 a.m. on Wednesday for a tour of Koh Khai Nok in Phang Nga province. <br /><br />On the way back, near Koh Khai Nok. It crashed into the luxury Russian motor yacht Stella, under its Russian captain Alexander Gorbunov, 47. <br /><br />The captain, Surat Mat-osod, was killed and dozens of panicked tourists were injured after being flung into the choppy seas.<br /><br />Pictures show the bloodied and battered tourists being caried to hospital on stretchers.<br /><br />The holidaymakers included people from Russia, Pakistan, Estonia, Iran, England and Egypt. They are being treated at Thalang Hospital in Phuket. <br /><br />Rescue workers were today (19/12) searching for one of the missing crew, Manoon Samanbut, who was flung into the water.<br /><br />Police Colonel Prasert Srikhunnarat, superintendent of marine police sub-division 8, said several vessels had been dispatched around the area of the crash.<br /><br />He added: ''Police divers are also searching for the missing crew member and the operation will continue until we can find him. There is a chance he is still alive. There are 12 divers involved with the search.''<br /><br />Kittipong Samanbut, the worried father of the missing crewman, said his son had only been working on the vessel for one month.
