Looking for John and Jackie Knill

John and Jackie Knill (pictured left)of North Vancouver, B.C., Canada were last seen in in Khao Lak, Thailand. Have you seen them?
If you have any info at all about the Knills, get in touch with a Canadian government official or let Chris Cummer know. He's trying to help out a friend by asking any bloggers who will help to spread the word about the search..
This morning on Canada AM, Terri Knill, John's brother and Jackie's sister-in-law, spoke to Bev Thomson about the search. You can watch that interview and see another news piece my CTV colleague Genevieve Beauchemin did on searches underway for the Knills and other Canadians missing in Southeast Asia. [The video links are on the right hand side of this page]
My Globe and Mail colleague Jane Armstrong had a piece today on the search for the Knills.
The CTV Web team has a page up with some instructions for Canadians looking for people in South Asia.

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  3. The Globe and Mail's Jane Armstrong has more on the Knills. [Link expires Feb. 29/05]. From that piece:

    The photos were recovered from a smashed camera discovered by an American missionary surveying the beach a week after the disaster struck at Khao Lak, one of the worst hit areas in Thailand.
    After viewing the photos, Christian Pilet, 40, eventually tracked the camera's owners to West Vancouver and returned the photos to the Knills' three grown sons.
    … the sons always wondered about the couple's last moments.
    Mr. Pilet has provided those answers….
    The photos include a string of standard holiday shots of the smiling couple followed by a succession of more ominous photos taken early on Dec. 26 as the giant waves advanced toward land.
    Mr. Pilet said David Knill, 25, looked at the photos and asked: “Dad, why didn't you run? ”
    Mr. Pilet had a different take. The Baptist missionary, who toured Khao Lak in the days after the tsunamis, said the waves destroyed everything in their path for more than two kilometres inland. No one on the beach that day could have survived. He thinks John and Jackie sensed this, which is why they snapped the photos.
    “I think it took a lot of courage to take those pictures,” said Mr. Pilet …

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  4. This is a tragic story indeed. And you see it happen so often. People that seem to be so goodhearted disappear without any reason when they visit a foreign country. By the way. Have they been found or not?
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