British tourist missing after diving boat sinks in Thailand

A British woman is missing after the scuba diving boat on which she was a passenger capsized off a Thai island.

Millie Young, 57, from Brighton, and a member of the local staff are still unaccounted for since the vessel sank on Saturday morning, with rescuers growing increasingly concerned for her life.

According to local media reports, the boat — the Reggae Queen — hit rough waters around the Surin Islands archipelago in southern Thailand, a tourist hotspot for diving.

The diving boat had 18 people on board when it began to take on water, the Bangkok Post reported, with 16 of them quickly rescued and taken to a nearby pier.

Her friends Jo and Phillip Degregorio and their two children Oska and Daisy, also British, were among those rescued when they were pulled aboard a passing fishing trawler.