Police warn families hunting for relatives

A GRIM warning awaits relatives who travel to Thailand in search of loved ones caught up in last week’s tsunami disaster.

The hastily established Official Thai Tsunami Information Centre, set up by the Royal Thai Police to cater for the deluge of appeals for help in locating victims and missing people, does not delude anyone that their task will be easy.

“Most of the victims were wearing only swim suits at the time of the incident and consequently there is very limited evidence with which to identify the bodies,” circulars from the centre at Phuket City Police Station bluntly state.