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BANGKOK: At least 70 foreigners were on a passenger jet that crashed Sunday on Thailand's southern resort island of Phuket, the transport minister said.
"The death toll is unclear at the moment but so far we know there were 44 Thai passengers on board and more than 70 foreigners," Sansern Wongcha-um told reporters.
At least 61 people died when the MD-82 aircraft, operated by low-cost carrier One-Two-Go, burst into flames and broke in two when it slid off the runway on the island, which is popular with holidaymakers.
Officials at one of Phuket's main hospitals told AFP that the 29 people they were treating including citizens from Australia, Austria, Britain, Iran, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands. Five were seriously injured, they said.
Other hospitals on the island said they were treating people from the Netherlands, Sweden and Thailand. - AFP/ac
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