Search for missing British tourists in Phuket continues

PHUKET, THAILAND, October 30 (TNA) - More than 100 police officers in Thailand's southern resort Phuket province have been mobilised to continue a 2nd-day search for two missing British tourists in a wild, after three rounds of search earlier had failed to locate the disappearing foreigners. Tuesday's search followed a meeting of authorities concerned, chaired by deputy commander of Phuket's police forces Police Major General Peerayuth Karajedi, to lay out a revised search plan for the two missing Britons, one male and one female, identified as 28-year-old Mohammed Samir and 26-year-old Hanna Zareen, who have disappeared since their study trip toward the Toan Sai Waterfall in the Khao Phra Taew Forest, also a local wildlife development and conservation station, on October 29 (Thailand's time). According to the police forces, a local taxi driver the two missing tourists earlier turned down his service later received a phone call from the Britons late Monday afternoon, saying that they got lost but the conversation was abruptly cut off by a signal problem. As for the latest search operation, the mobilized local police officers, in conjunction with a border patrol force from adjacent Nakhon Si Thammarat province and sniffer dogs, have been deployed covering as many areas as possible, both on the ground and in the air, with a hope that the widespread search should result in finding the two British tourists in safe conditions. (TNA)