American dies in Pattaya hotel fall
published : 4 Jun 2024 at 11:04
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
An American man was found dead in the car park of the Pattaya hotel where he stayed on Tuesday morning.
A security guard told police he spotted the body while patrolling the hotel grounds about 6am and called the police.
Police said the hotel is on Thappraya 15 Road. The dead man was 43 years old, was wearing only pants and was found lying face down and had bled from the head.
His name was withheld until relatives were informed.
The man stayed in a room on the seventh floor of the hotel. Police found no signs of violence in the room, but there were many syringes and scraps of cannabis.
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Vocabulary
- bleed: to have blood flowing from your body, for example from a cut -
- inform: to tell somebody about something, especially in an official way - แจ้งให้ทราบ
- patrol: to move regularly around a place in order to prevent trouble or crime or to watch for an enemy - ลาดตระเวน
- scraps (noun): old metal, paper, etc. that can be used again after going through a special process - เหล็กเก่า ๆ สำหรับหล่อหลอมและเปลี่ยนรูปใหม่,เศษเหล็ก, เป็นชิ้นเล็กชิ้น
- syringe: a hollow cylindrical piece of equipment which is used for sucking liquid out of, or pushing liquid into something, especially one with a needle - หลอดดูดยา
- violence: physical force with the deliberate intention of causing damage to property or injury or death to people - ความรุนแรง, การใช้กำลังทำลาย
- withheld (verb): to deliberately not give something to someone - ไม่เปิดเผย, ไม่อนุญาต, ระงับ, ถอนกลับ
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