A CHINESE tourist drowned while swimming in the choppy seas off Koh Samet, Rayong, this afternoon (Dec. 31) while another holidaymaker also died after falling off a cliff at Pam Bok waterfall in Mae Hong Son’s Pai district, Amarin TV and Matichon newspaper said this evening.
The Chinese tourist who drowned, Mr. Lee Yuefeng, who was approximately 35 years old, had travelled here alone and had gone swimming in the stormy seas for hours before drowning.
Someone on the beach saw him sinking in the waters and swam out and brought him to the shore where he tried to revive him with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) but unsuccessfully so.
When police from Rayong station arrived they found the deceased tourist lying supine on the beach with some people still milling around.
His body was taken to Rayong Hospital for autopsy with the Chinese embassy to be informed of his death.
Meanwhile another Chinese tourist, Mr. Peng Xin, 52, had climbed up Pam Bok waterfall but then slipped and fell from a height of six to ten metres, dying on the spot.
Pai police checked his body but did not see any signs of a fight or foul play with his sister also not suspicious about his death. His body was taken to Pai Hospital for an autopsy to determine the clear cause of death.
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Top and Front Page: An image of Mr. Lee Yuefeng who drowned off Koh Samet today (Dec. 31) inset on a background showing the rough seas and his body being taken to hospital. Photo: Amarin TV
Insert: Pam Bok waterfall in Pai district, Mae Hong Son, where Mr. Peng Xin died today (Dec. 31). Photo: Matichon
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