NZ man falls to his death
published : 30 Aug 2024 at 07:47
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiyot Pupattanapong
A man from New Zealand fell to his death from a luxury hotel in Pattaya, Chon Buri, yesterday.
The Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan foundation was alerted to the incident at a hotel in tambon Nong Phrue, Bang Lamung district, around 6am.
Police and rescuers arrived at the scene and found the body of Akuhata Edward Robert Hammind, aged 36.
Hotel staff who witnessed the incident reported that the man appeared to be having hallucinations, allegedly due to drug use, and was repeatedly shouting "Help me" to a crowd of onlookers.
The staff tried to calm him and offer assistance before he suddenly jumped from his room's seventh-floor balcony, falling onto the electric wiring pipes of a nearby hotel.
A video showing the man standing on the balcony before jumping was submitted to police as evidence by witnesses.
His body was sent to forensic police for investigation, said Pol Lt Chanan Kesornbua of Pattaya city police station.
The death was the latest in a series of similar incidents in Pattaya, including a Thai man who fell from a hotel on June 1, a Russian man from a condo on June 3, an American man from a hotel on June 4, and a German man from a hotel on June 6.
Vocabulary
- alert: to tell someone in about a danger or problem so that they can take action to deal with it - เตือนภัย
- assistance: help; aid - ความช่วยเหลือ
- balcony: a place where you can stand just outside an upper window. It sticks out from the wall of a building - ระเบียง
- forensic: relating to the use of scientific methods to solve crimes or to find out why something happened - เกี่ยวกับนิติวิทยาศาสตร์
- foundation: an organisation that provides money for things such as medical research or for a charity - มูลนิธิ
- hallucination: something that you think you can see or hear that is not really there, especially because of an illness or the effect of drugs - อาการประสาทหลอน, การเห็นภาพหลอน
- incident: something that happens, usually something bad - เหตุการณ์
- onlookers: people who watch something that is happening in a public place but are not involved in it - ผู้ดูเหตุการณ์
- repeatedly: happening, said or done many times - อย่างซ้ำๆ
- submitted (verb): formally given to someone, usually, but not always, so that they can make a decision about it - ยื่น
