Two babies born on the same day in the same hospital in Thailand were accidentally switched at birth, but nobody knew about it for a decade.

Rescue teams struggling through mountains of mud unleashed by flooding have found 2,000 people trapped in a southern Thai village without food since a landslide cut them off from the outside world three days ago.

Thailand’s government announced its death toll in the tsunami disaster had doubled to more than 4,500 people – almost half of them foreigners – and hopes faded more survivors would be found.

A seven-year-old boy has been killed in an explosion at a railway station in the southern Thai city of Hat Yai.