Foreigner drowns trying to retrieve water gun from Bangkok canal

Another tourist escapes a motel fire and plunges to his death.

Foreigner drowns trying to retrieve water gun from Bangkok canal
Rescuers gather at the Pratunam wharf to find the body of a visitor who allegedly jumped into the Saen Saep canal on Sunday night to get a waters gun. ( Photo: Ruamkatanyu Foundation )

From Sunday evening through early on Monday morning, two foreigners perished in the cash. One drowned in a river in an ostensible attempt to retrieve a liquid gun, while the other perished from a resort fire exit.

At 7. Rescue personnel were informed at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday that a stranger had fallen into the Saen Saep river from the Pratunam jetty. Scuba divers immediately took the body out of the canal’s nearby Chaloemlok gate.

Witnesses claimed the customer had attended a local location to celebrate the Songkran water festival. He jumped into the water to fetch his water cannon after unintentionally dropping it into the river, drowning. The prey was never identified.

Officers at the Lumpini place were called to a resort on Sukhumvit 2 Road in the Klong Toey area at 1 a.m. on Monday. A 54-year-old Chinese man’s body was discovered there, lying in front of a broken car. No shoes were present for the dying man, who was dressed in a black sweater and blue jeans.

The gold Toyota Vios vehicle in Sa Kaeo province had a shattered windscreen and a broken roof. The hat had body stains on it.

The man checked in at the hotel only at 12: according to authorities. 45am. Then he fell to his death from the eighth floor of the hotel as a result of the fireplace exit stairs.   His hotel space was no ransacked.