Man dies after falling into well in Lat Phrao

Officials and rescue workers gather to help a man who fell into a tube well in Lat Phrao, Bangkok, on Friday. He lost his life. (Photo supplied)
Officials and rescue workers gather to help a man who fell into a tube well in Lat Phrao, Bangkok, on Friday. He lost his life. (Photo supplied)

A man died after falling into a 15-metre-deep tube well on a road divider in Bangkok's Lat Phrao district on Friday.

City inspectors, known as thessakit, saw the man, whose identity has yet to be confirmed, falling into the well at Soi Lat Phrao 49, police said. The incident was reported at 11.13am.

Rescue workers rushed to the scene, as police closed traffic on both lanes of the road.

At 12.10pm, the man was successfully retrieved, but he was dead.

According to reports, the victim was crossing the road when he stepped onto the wooden cover of the Metropolitan Electricity Authority's tube well, causing it to give way and resulting in his fall.

Bangkok governor Chadchart Sittipunt said the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration extended its condolences to the victim's family.

Mr Chadchart said the loss of life was due to an electrical conduit whose cover was not completely closed.

The Wang Thong Lang district office had notified the agency concerned to repair its electrical conduit three weeks ago, said the governor.

The BMA was ready to work with the MEA to provide compensation to the family, he added.

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Vocabulary

  • agency (noun): a government department that provides a particular service - หน่วยงานราชการ
  • compensation: money that someone receives because something bad has happened to them - เงินชดเชย
  • condolences (noun): sympathy that you feel for somebody when a person in their family or that they know well has died; an expression of this sympathy - การแสดงความเสียใจต่อผู้อื่น
  • conduit (noun): a pipe, channel or tube which liquid, gas or electrical wire can pass through - ท่อใต้ดิน
  • give way: to break or fall down - พัง, ล้มลง
  • incident: something that happens, usually something bad - เหตุการณ์
  • inspector : an official whose job is to check that things are in the correct condition or that people are doing what they should - ผู้ตรวจสอบ
  • retrieve: to recover; to get something back, especially something that is not easy to find - ได้กลับคืนมา
  • tube: a long hollow cylinder made from plastic, metal, rubber or glass - ท่อ, หลอด
  • well: a deep hole in the ground from which people obtain water - บ่อน้ำ
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