American YouTuber found dead in Pattaya house
published : 31 Jan 2023 at 12:55
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
An American YouTuber was found dead in a house at Pattaya Lagoon housing village in Bang Lamung district on Monday night.
The discovery of his body was reported to Pattaya police about 8.25pm.
Laith Abdallah Algaz, 35, was found dead in the toilet of a bedroom on the second floor. He was wearing only a shirt and had been bleeding from the mouth and nose. His face was smeared with blood.
Algaz was believed to have died about five hours previously.
The room appeared to have been ransacked.
Algaz's body was discovered by a friend who came to check on why he was unale to contact the man. The door was locked when he arrived and the housekeeper unlocked it for him.
Algaz was a YouTuber who uploaded stories and videos about food supplements and exercise on YouTube. He had about 100,000 followers. The man had a history of bipolar disorder.
Police were still investigating the cause of death.
Vocabulary
- bipolar disorder: a condition in which people go back and forth between periods of a very good or verb bad feelings/emotions and depression - โรคจิตชนิดไบโปลาร์,ความแปรปรวนชนิดสองขั้ว
- discovery: an act or the process of finding somebody/something, or learning about something that was not known about before - การค้นพบ
- ransack: to go through a place stealing or damaging things - ปล้นสะดม
- smear: to spread a soft of liquid substance over a surface in an untidy way - รอยเปื้อน
- supplement (noun): a thing that is added to something else to improve or complete it - ส่วนเพิ่มเติม, ส่วนเสริม
