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A body which may be the last missing passenger on board the capsized tourist boat Phoenix in Thailand's Phuket was found Wednesday afternoon by rescue teams.

Phuket Provincial Governor Norraphat Plodthong told a press conference at the command center for the search and rescue mission that the body was assumed to be the last missing passenger in Phuket boat accident. Chinese RMB cash and sea sickness pills were found on the body, and the body was in the same life jacket of other passengers on board Phoenix.

So far, 47 were confirmed dead in the boat accident, including a body still trapped by the boat's wreckage underwater, the governor said.