British tourist badly hurt after boat hit and run in Koh Tao, Thailand

[zwiebel]

An unidentified British woman nearly lost her leg yesterday when she was hit by the propeller of a boat at Koh Tao island, Thailand.

According to police, the 20-year-old British woman nearly lost her leg in the accident, which occured while she was taking a diving lesson with other tourists from a company called Scuba Shark on the western side of the island.*

The boat's turbine hit her leg while she and the other tourists were swimming to shore, breaking two of her bones and causing her to bleed profusely.

Police are still searching for the captain, who fled the scene.

Koh Tao is where British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were murdered last year.

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