Searchers dig in muddy swamp where tourist plane crashed near Bangkok

A rescue team work at a site of a small aircraft’s crash (Chachoengsao’s Public Relations Department via AP)

Searchers are digging in the mud of a flooded mangrove swamp outside Bangkok for plane fragments and the remains of nine people believed to have been killed in a crash shortly after take-off.

Around 300 officers and rescue volunteers have been searching the crash site and will send any remains they recover for forensic identification, Chachoengsao province governor Chonlatee Yangtrong said late on Thursday.