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more tourists drown
PHUKET: A Russian housewife and a Saudi Arabian man are the two latest drowning victims at Phuket beaches, where dangerous surf conditions have claimed the lives of three foreign tourists over the weekend.
Cherng Talay police received a report of a drowning at Bang Tao Beach about 5:45 pm on Saturday. Pol Lt Col Jessada Sangsuree of the Cherng Talay Police Station identified the victim as 43-year-old Ekaterina Burova, a Russian woman who was on holiday with friends and relatives.
“When I arrived at the scene she was already dead. I noticed red warning flags and some members of the beach guard in the area where her body was recovered, but I am not sure if she entered the sea where a beach guard was present,” he said.
The victim was swimming with her two children and one other relative when she started having difficulty staying on the surface of the water, and finally succumbed to the waves. Local people helped bring her body back to shore, but she could not be resuscitated, Col Jessada said.
Ms Burova’s body is being kept at Thalang Hospital.
The Russian Embassy have been notified and her family will fly her body back to Russia, where funeral services will be held, he said.
The third victim over the weekend was identified as 32-year-old Abrahi Altalt of Saudi Arabia, whose body was discovered at Patong Beach yesterday afternoon.
Pol Capt Padungpong Duksukkaew of the Kathu Police said Mr Altalt had traveled to Phuket with friends for a holiday.
His body was recovered after disappearing in heavy waves and later sent to Patong Hospital.
The Saudi Arabian Embassy has been notified, Capt Padungpong said.
The two drownings followed that of Singaporean Chua Holk Beng, 34, whose body was pulled from the surf at Patong Beach on Saturday afternoon along with that of a friend who was alive but unconscious and taken to Patong Hospital.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Singaporean tourist drowns
PATONG (Nation, TNA): A Singaporean tourist drowned after he and a friend ignored red warning flags and went swimming in rough, monsoon-season seas at Patong Beach yesterday.
Chua Holk Beng, 34, was found dead just before 3 pm.
His friend, identified as Edwardgos Tingtos, 34, was rescued by members of the Phuket Provincial Administration (OrBorJor) beach guard.
He was taken to Patong Hospital, where he was last reported as unconscious but in stable condition.
Both tourists arrived in Phuket for a seminar on tourism, staying at a hotel near the beach.
Red warning flags have been placed on a number of west coast beaches including Patong beach banning swimming for the safety of tourists due to high waves induced by southwest monsoon, now prevailing in the Andaman.
phuketgazette
