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Several Hong Kong politicians could be among the missing following Sunday’s devastating earthquake and tidal waves, according to sources.
Contact has been lost with newly-elected Democratic Party leader Lee Wing-tat and his wife, Tuen Mun district councillor Josephine Chan.
Party members they had been travelling with in Phuket, Thailand, sent mobile phone messages to the media saying that they were still trying to locate the Lees who were believed to have been at a beachfront hotel in Phuket when the tidal waves struck.
Executive Councillor Leung Chun-ying is holidaying with four family members in the Maldives and is so far unreachable.
Executive Councillor and Liberal Party vice-chair Selina Chow was safe in Bangkok, according to Chow’s daughter in Hong Kong.
The Chinese embassy in Bangkok said some mainland and Hong Kong tourists were stranded on Phi Phi island, about 48 kilometres southeast of Phuket, and it had asked local authorities for help.
According to local reports at least two Hong Kong residents were among the injured in Phuket. A Phuket hospital spokesman was quoted as saying the two Hong Kongers were a 26-year-old man and a 33-year-old woman, but their condition and identities remained unknown.
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