Westerners among 300 killed in Thailand

NEARLY 300 people, including a number of Western holidaymakers, were killed and more than 2,300 injured in southern Thai resorts after a major earthquake hit southeast Asia yesterday, causing tidal waves and flooding, a government disaster centre said.

An unofficial tally placed the dead at 297, the government’s Thai News Agency said.

The Narenthorn Centre of the Public Health Ministry centre reported that some people had been swept out to sea from a Phuket beach by tidal waves.