Rescuers find missing Spanish couple

SURAT THANI: A Spanish couple has been found safe and well after going missing while on a walk in a forest on Koh Phangan.

The couple became lost and called for help, sparking a six-hour search on Thursday that extended late into the night.

The island’s tourist assistant centre was informed via Tourist Police Hotline 1155 at around 4.30pm that two tourists, heading back from the Khao Ra viewpoint to their hotel, had become lost in a forest.

A 50-member team of local and tourist police, national park officials and rescue workers was assembled and began a search.

More than six hours later, a relieved Jose Landuce, 41, and his companion, Esther De La Fluente Hermandez, 39, were found near a stream around…