The 26-year-old backpacker, from Lambeth, south London, was reportedly using the toilet when a fire erupted from the engine of the wooden vessel near Koh Tao on Sunday morning

A British woman died in a fire aboard a diving boat off Thailand's popular island Koh Tao on Sunday after becoming trapped in a restroom when the blaze broke out.

A backpacker is missing after a dive tour boat caught fire and sunk in Thailand. Other tourists and crew were able to be evacuated to another boat but authorities are searching for British woman Alexandra Clarke, 26, who was thought to be in the toilet when the fire started on Sunday morning off the island of Koh Tao.