The World : 150 Viet Refugees Slain

Thai pirates slaughtered about 150 Vietnamese refugees in an attack in the Gulf of Thailand two months ago, the sole survivor and Thai police said. The survivor, a teen-age girl, said the refugees left Vietnam on June 15 in a boat headed for Malaysia. Two days later, they were attacked by two Thai fishing boats. Fishermen armed with knives boarded the boat, robbed passengers and abducted 13 women and a boy. They then rammed the refugees’ boat and sank it. The teen-ager said she and the other women were held captive for a week, raped by the fishermen and then thrown overboard. She was rescued after 18 hours in the water.