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.
