World IN BRIEF : THAILAND : Report of Survivors in Hotel Proves False
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Army officers at a collapsed hotel in Nakhon Ratchasima said that volunteer rescuers’ reports that five women had been found alive in the debris turned out to be false. The volunteers told reporters a day earlier that they had tunneled their way through the rubble to the women. Officials said misunderstood radio messages and confusion among the rescue teams led to the false report.
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