The body of another crewman from HTMS Sukhothai has been identified as searchers focus on islands off Chumphon province in the hope of finding the five remaining missing sailors almost two weeks after the warship sank in the Gulf of Thailand.
Royal Thai Navy spokesman Adm Pokkrong Monthatpalin said on Friday that the latest victim found on Thursday was CPO 1 Prai Ruamyart. His body and two others were to be transported from Wing 5 in Prachuap Khiri Khan to the Royal Thai Navy Crematorium in Sattahip district of Chon Buri for royally sponsored bathing and religious rites on Friday afternoon.
