Thai navy warship capsizes in storm as rescue teams search for 31 missing

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Three navy vessels and two helicopters were sent to find the missing personnel off Prachuap Khiri Khan province, south of Bangkok after the HTMS Sukhothai warship suffered an engine malfunction and went down just before midnight about 20 nautical miles (37 km) from the coast.

An overnight rescue mission in bad weather secured 73 of the 106 people aboard, the navy said, with the remaining 33 forced to abandon ship.

The navy posted images and video footage on its Twitter account, showing a group of personnel in orange vests in a black inflatable raft moving away from the capsized ship in darkness as waves swelled around it. It was not immediately clear how many rafts had been deployed.

The Sukhothai, a U.S.-built corvette in use since 1987, was hit by strong waves on Sunday (December 18), forcing it to tilt to one side before becoming flooded with seawater, navy spokesperson Admiral Pogkrong Monthardpalin said.

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