Tourist tells how he escaped tsunami at Thailand resort
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BANGKOK (Kyodo) Kazumoto Niki considers himself a very lucky man. The 28-year-old Tokyo office worker arrived on the Thai resort island of Phuket at 8:45 am Sunday and boarded a bus for the nearby mainland
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By Channel NewsAsia&#39;s Indo-China Correspondent May Ying Welsh. PHUKET : Aftershocks continue to rattle Thailand&#39;s southern resort island of Phuket as the grisly task of recovering bodies and searching for survivors continues in the aftermath of a tsunami.
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A Thai expert said on Monday he tried to warn the government a deadly tsunami might be sweeping toward tourist-packed beaches, but couldn't find anyone to take his calls.
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THE first Australians to arrive home from the tsunami-ravaged holiday island of Phuket had the wide-eyed expressions of people who still couldn&#39;t believe what they had seen.
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The BBC's Roland Buerk describes escaping from the tsunami that smashed into Sri Lanka's south coast.
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Thai rescuers load empty coffins to be sent to Phuket at Bangkok military airport Monday, Dec. 27, 2004. Rescuers converged on beaches and islands Monday to search for survivors of earthquake-spawned tidal
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Thailand struggled yester-day to evacuate thousands of traumatised foreign tourists from its once thriving holiday island of Phuket and other popular islands and beach resorts devastated by Sunday&#39;s tsunamis.
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PHUKET, Thailand  - The Indonesian pilot of a budget airliner that crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people, tried to land despite being warned of windshear threats, a top Thai aviation official said on Tuesday.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand -- Miles of tsunami-shattered beach hotels on the Thai mainland north of Phuket island began yielding up their dead yesterday, bloated gashed, and mangled bodies.
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Of the 12 million tourists who visited Thailand this year, many headed straight to the gems of the south to soak up the sun along tropical beaches, dive on spectacular coral reefs and indulge in a languid, sometimes lascivious, lifestyle. Now, they're scurrying away in droves, reeling from a disaster of epic proportions which left five-star resorts and &#36;3-a-night bungalows in ruins and polluted the air with the smell of rotting corpses.
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Thailand has evacuated injured survivors of the devastating tsunami from its southern tourist beaches as officials said the national death toll was expected to top 1,000.
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A WELSH doctor honeymooning on the tsunami-devastated Thai beaches has risked her life to tend to those injured in the massive earthquake.
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BANGKOK : Western tourists who survived giant waves that struck Thailand&#39;s shores at the weekend have been astounded by the generosity of locals grappling with their own massive destruction and loss of life.
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PHUKET, Thailand - Robert Borland found himself helpless on the floor of the jet wreckage, his pants in flames, when a passenger in a yellow shirt helped him out onto the wing. He knows nothing else about the man who probably saved his life.
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The tsunami claimed the lives of hundreds of foreign tourists. Many families remain separated.
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A British holidaymaker in Thailand said today she had been to visit some of the dozens of tourists being treated in hospitals on Phuket.
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Editor&#39;s note: The following e-mail exchange comes from Elizabeth &quot;Betty&quot; Magee, who recently moved to Fort Myers. Her brother, Brian Peace, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was in Phuket, Thailand when the tsunami struck the region.