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Mystery woman drowns off Phang Nga beach

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3 years ago

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Tim Newton

PHOTO: komchadluek.net

A woman, over the age of 60 in a black swimsuit, drowned on a beach north of Phuket on Tuesday.

When emergency responders arrived at Khuk Khak Beach in Takuapa district, Phang Nga, the woman was already deceased. A security guard at the hotel fronting beach the woman was swimming tried to apply CPR before rescuers arrived, but to no avail.

Her body has been moved to Khao Lak medical centre. Police has been trying to find where she was staying but all the hotels in the area say that she wasn’t staying with them. There was no other belongings or ID found near where the woman was swimming.

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Tim Newton

Tim Newton has lived in Thailand since 2012. An Australian, he has worked in the media, principally radio and TV, for 41 years. He has won the Deutsche Welle Award for best radio talk program, presented over 10,000 radio news bulletins, 3,900 in Thailand alone, hosted 650 daily TV news programs and produced 2,100 videos, TV commercials and documentaries. As founder of The Thaiger, Tim now acts as the Content Manager and head-writer, whilst supervising the growth of the YouTube channel. He's reported for CNN, Deutsche Welle TV, CBC, Australia's ABC TV and Australian radio during the 2018 Cave Rescue and other major stories in Thailand.

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