At least 87 people were killed on March 8, when a ferry jammed with Buddhist pilgrims was sliced in two before dawn in a collision in the Gulf of Thailand with a small oil tanker, the Thai marine police said. A woman in Si Racha, Thailand, wept over the coffin of a relative who died in the accident, Police spokesmen said the ferry captain was trying to cut cross the path of the tanker when the collision occurred.
Article extracted from this publication >> March 20, 1992
