NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: A woman evacuated to a centre providing shelter for villagers from tropical storm Pabuk was found dead in a canal in Pak Phanang district of this southern province on Sunday morning, police said.
The woman was identified as Joom Pooroy, 57, said Pol Lt Col Yongyut Ratananipon, Pak Phanang police chief investigator.
Her body was found floating face down in the canal near a village in tambon Hulong shortly after midnight. No wounds or traces of physical attack were found on the body. She was thought to have drowned six hours previously.
On Friday, the woman entered the centre at the office for the Pak Phanang river basin development project, set up to shelter villagers from tropital storm Pabuk.
After the storm subsided, she left the evacuation centre on a motorcycle on Saturday afternoon for her home and never returned, only to be found dead in the canal along the way. It was believed she had fallen into the canal after a motorbike accident.
She was the province's 4th victim of the storm.