33 Missing After Thai Warship Sinks

THAILAND – Thailand’s military deployed warships and helicopters on Monday to try to locate 33 Marines missing after a Corvette sank overnight in choppy waters in the Gulf of Thailand.

Three Navy vessels and two helicopters were sent to find the missing off a province, just south of Bangkok after the warship suffered an engine malfunction and went down just before midnight about 20 nautical miles off the coast.

An overnight rescue mission in bad weather secured more than 70 of the 106 people aboard.

The Navy says the remaining 33 were 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 a ship in darkness as waves swelled around it.