Nineteen injured in train derailment remain hospitalised

BANGKOK, Sept 6 (TNA) – Nineteen passengers injured in the train derailment on Monday remain in three hospitals in the southern province of Prachuap Khiri Khan, according to Dr Chatree Charoencheewakul, secretary general of the Emergency Medical Institute of Thailand.

Among 19 patients, one injured passenger, Kamdee Thongpradab, is in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Hua Hin Hospital with internal bleeding in his stomach.

Doctors will move him out of the ICU Tuesday afternoon if his condition is stable.

The sole foreign passenger injured in the accident, British national Richard Sprouder  suffered broken ribs and is recovering well.

More patients are expected to be released from hospital Tuesday afternoon.

Three injured passengers were transferred to hospitals in Bangkok and Surat Thani on Monday.

The death toll in the incident stands at seven.

A crowded passenger train, route number 84 Trang-Bangkok en route from the southern province of Trang to the capital derailed at Khao Tao Station in the resort town of Hua Hin in Prachuab Khiri Khan Monday morning, killing at least seven passengers, while nearly 90 others were injured. The cause of the accident is under investigation. (TNA)