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    Phi Phi : Canadian sisters found dead in Thai resort

    Canadian sisters found dead in Thai resort
    Jun 16, 2012

    BANGKOK (AFP) - The bodies of two Canadian sisters have been found in a hotel room on the popular tourist resort island of Phi Phi, Thai police told AFP on Saturday, without revealing the suspected cause of death.

    The sisters, aged 26 and 20, were found dead on Friday afternoon by hotel staff on the Andaman sea island, 800km south of Bangkok.

    'Their bodies were found a little after midday (Friday). They were sisters,' Lieutenant Pongpan Waiyawat, of the island's police force told AFP.

    'We have to wait for the post-mortem to determine the cause of death but based on initial investigations there's no sign of violence in their room.'

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    Full moon jubilation?

    RIP young ladies, much to young...

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    RIP ladies. Should be amusing when the Thai denials start, will they have the balls to call the simultaneous deaths a coincidence, like that British couple in Chiang Mai?

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    Also like that woman not long ago from Manchester, England

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    From the Phuket Gazette

    Canadian sisters found dead in Phi Phi hotel room, poisoning suspected
    Phuket Gazette – Saturday, June 16, 2012 2:51:29 PM

    A medical team from Phi Phi Island Hospital rushed to the scene, but the two women were believed to have died about 12 hours before their bodies were discovered. Photo: Kritsada Mueanhawong

    PHUKET: Police are investigating the cause of death of two Canadian sisters found dead in their hotel room on Phi Phi Island yesterday afternoon.

    Lt Siwa Saneha of Phi Phi Island Police Station told the Phuket Gazette, “We received a report at about 9pm yesterday, that two tourists' bodies were found in the same hotel room at the Phi Phi Palms Residence.

    “We rushed to the hotel with medical officers from Koh Phi Phi Hospital and a rescue team.”

    The sisters, one aged 20 and the other aged 26, checked in to the hotel on Tuesday.

    “They went out and came back to their room that same night, but stayed in their room all day on Wednesday,” he said.

    It was not until yesterday that hotel staff became concerned for the women’s welfare.

    “A maid knocked on the door to clean the room on Thursday, but there was no response, so the maid thought the women needed more rest and left,” explained Lt Siwa.

    The maid returned to clean the room yesterday, but again there was no response to her knocks on the door.

    After repeated attempts failed to rouse the women, the maid obtained a master key to open the door.

    Lt Col Rat Somboon of Krabi Provincial Police told the Gazette that officers at the scene believed that the women had died about 12 hours before their bodies were found.

    Police suspect poisoning he said.

    “There was a lot of vomit in the room, and both bodies showed similar signs [of trauma]. They had skin lesions and it seemed that they had bled from the gums. Also, their fingernails and toenails were blue,” Col Rat explained.

    “We will have experts conduct tests on the vomit and urine samples taken from the scene to try to determine the cause of death,” he added.

    The women’s bodies are now being kept at Krabi Hospital in Krabi Town.

    The deaths of these two women follow an American and two Norwegian tourists dying of suspected poisoning after staying at 'The Laleena guesthouse’ on Phi Phi Island in 2009.

    Extensive tests failed to provide any conclusive evidence as to what those three tourists died of.

    Early last year, four guests; three foreign and one Thai died after staying at the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai. While food poisoning was ruled out in that case, the Thai Department of Disease Control speculated that pesticide used as vermin control may have contributed to the deaths.

    The Downtown Inn has since been demolished.


    Extensive tests? I wonder if the Canadian Corenor will find anything? Poor buggers!

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    Very sad. Is the 'farang deaths' thread still running?
    It seems the incidence is on the increase.
    Poor health and safety, food hygiene, lawlessness, malevolence.. Thailand (at least the Andaman/Gulf peninsula) really is a very dangerous place to go on holiday. I can't remember it ever being as bad as the last 18 months.
    Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"

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    Fok's sake.....

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    Two years ago the same thing happened in the same location. Chlorine gas from the water treatment plant nearby. At that time as I recall there were 4 total dead in two different locations. Nothing ever reported after that.

    Thread on BP about multiple ferang deaths in Thailand has that data.

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    When was the last full moon here ?

    My guess is dodgy drugs, I might be way off the mark though

    R.I.P Girls

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    Doubt they would need a full moon to take a drugs overdose if they were into drugs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ltnt View Post

    Thread on BP about multiple ferang deaths in Thailand has that data.
    Bangkok post?? Link?

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    http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phi-phi...atality-16164/


    Phi Phi's Laleena guesthouse, scene of deaths in Rooms 4 and 5
    Photo by phuketwan.com


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    UPDATE Phi Phi Deaths of Canadian Sisters Revive Riddle of Laleena Double Fatality

    By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian
    Saturday, June 16, 2012

    Mysterious Phi Phi Island: Photo Album Above

    PHUKET: Two Canadian sisters aged 20 and 26 have been found dead in a room at a hotel on the popular holiday island of Phi Phi, reviving the riddle of two earlier mysterious deaths.

    At this stage the latest tourist deaths also remain a mystery, with a Phi Phi policeman quoted as saying there were no signs of violence.

    The bodies, found at the Phi Phi Palms Residence, are now at Krabi Hospital, a nurse told Phuketwan this afternoon. A team of pathologists is likely to autopsy them as soon as possible.

    Police believe the sisters may have been poisoned. As with a similar case on Phi Phi three years ago, a maid opened a door to find the sisters dead. Initial reports say the sisters checked in on Tuesday, but did not emerge on Wednesday.

    The maid knocked on Thursday to clean the room, but again there was no response. Only yesterday was a master key used to open the door.

    As with the earlier deaths of an American woman and a Norwegian woman, there were signs of vomiting in the room.

    Phi Phi, like neigboring Phuket, is a popular Thai island destination with fun-seeking 20-somethings.

    The island has a reputation for tropical night life and binge drinking - and it was recently voted the world's top island by TripAdvisor readers.

    So far there is little information about the deaths but early reports have already been picked up by the media around the world, and with good reason.

    Phi Phi, about 80 or 90 minutes from Phuket by ferry, was the scene of the still unexplained deaths of two young women around this time of the year in 2009.

    The mystery of what killed the women - in adjoining rooms at the same guesthouse - has never been solved.

    American Jill St Onge, 27, was in one room with her boyfriend Ryan Kells, while Norwegian Julie Michelle Bergheim, 22, and her friend ''Karina'' signed in for the room next door.

    Within hours, St Onge and Bergheim were dead, and Kells and ''Karina'' narrowly avoided the same fate.

    The Laleena guesthouse has since changed its name but the mystery lives on.

    Despite pathologists and chemists in Norway and the US trying to solve the mystery, no cause of the Laleena deaths has ever been determined.

    Although news of the latest tragedy is still sketchy - police told AFP that the women were found dead yesterday - the fact that the 2009 deaths remain unsolved and that the victims were also young women is likely to lead to intense media coverage.

    Last year in Thailand, there was yet another riddle - the mystery of what killed 23-year-old New Zealand woman Sarah Carter and several other tourists in Chiang Mai and the city's Downtown Inn.

    The cause of those deaths has never been fully resolved.

    Online, the resort where the Canadian women died is described as follows:

    PHI PHI TWIN PALMS BUNGALOW & PHI PHI PALMS RESIDENCE are located at Loh Dalam Bay in Phi Phi Island. One of the most popular destinations in the South of Thailand. It is just 45 kms to the southeast of Phuket and 45 kms to the southwest of Krabi. Fine, white sandy beaches and breathtaking rock formations rising from the vivid turquoise waters that surround the islands will instantly confirm you've arrived in paradise.

    Our Hotel is run by a local Phi Phi island Family, dedicated to tending to you every need in a warm and friendly way.
    "Slavery is the daughter of darkness; an ignorant people is the blind instrument of its own destruction; ambition and intrigue take advantage of the credulity and inexperience of men who have no political, economic or civil knowledge. They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice."-Simón Bolívar

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    No joke - Thai TV mentioned it was possibly a planed suicide pact

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    People have so much fun in Thailand that they start doing things they might not otherwise do. Like drugs. Newbies are usually the ones that OD

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    Quote Originally Posted by socal
    People have so much fun in Thailand that they start doing things they might not otherwise do. Like drugs. Newbies are usually the ones that OD
    It doesn't sound like drugs. And if it was tainted drugs, there would be more deaths than these two. It sounds like poison, due to the reported lesions they have on their skin. Whether airborne or ingested, intentional or not, will probably not be known if it's anything like previous deaths on the island.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pickel View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by socal
    People have so much fun in Thailand that they start doing things they might not otherwise do. Like drugs. Newbies are usually the ones that OD
    It doesn't sound like drugs. And if it was tainted drugs, there would be more deaths than these two. It sounds like poison, due to the reported lesions they have on their skin. Whether airborne or ingested, intentional or not, will probably not be known if it's anything like previous deaths on the island.
    Over consumption of drugs, even alcohol is still classified as poisoning. Experienced drug users can handle a bad batch better then some newbie that is biting off more then they can chew.

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    This is just shocking to me. Imagine how their parents are feeling. Being siblings (similar genetically) I wonder how much that had to do with the reaction to whatever if was they came in contact with. Could be some sort of strong allergic reaction to something. Another thing that popped into my head was the recent MaeSot deaths due to poisonous mushrooms. I know they ruled out food. Just came to mind.


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    Cover up already underway then?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hampsha
    deaths due to poisonous mushrooms.
    i was sort of wondering along the same lines,, the other thought was, is,nt it odd that it has only been females involved,,i just hope there is,nt some sick ferker out there drugging these poor girls..

    is a shame so young having the time of their lives...my thought are now for the parents..i am sad for their loss
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    Poisoning suspected after Canadian sisters found dead in Thailand
    Saturday, Jun. 16 2012

    Two sisters from Quebec have been identified as the two Canadians found dead in their hotel room in Thailand, relatives and media reports said Saturday.

    A cousin says the sisters are Audrey Belanger, 20, and Noemi Belanger, 26, both of Pohenegamook in eastern Quebec near the border with Maine.

    He says the pair studied in Quebec City with their eldest sister, but worked at the family store in the community of roughly 3,000.

    The cousin, who did not want his name used, says word of the sisters’ death has rocked the close-knit community.

    Police in Thailand were investigating the cause of death but media reports quote police as indicating there were no signs of violence at the scene.

    The Phuket Gazette quotes a spokesman with the Phi Phi Island police saying they received a report Friday night about two tourists’ bodies being found in a room.

    The Gazette says the sisters checked in to the Phi Phi Palms hotel Tuesday.

    The newspaper reported on its website that the two went out that night but stayed in their room all day Wednesday. Apparently by Friday, hotel staff became concerned and went into their room to check.

    Police say investigators believed the women had died about 12 hours before their bodies were found.

    Poisoning is suspected in the deaths but tests are being done to try to determine the cause of death.

    Foreign Affairs confirmed the deaths but did not release any names. A spokesperson says consular officials have been in touch with local authorities.

    The cousin says the women’s parents were notified while visiting their other daughter in Quebec City.

    The tragic news then trickled back to the Marche Bonichoix, the family store where the sisters worked, an employee said, but would not comment further for fear of upsetting the family.

    Messages apparently posted on Noemi Belanger’s Facebook page earlier wished the young woman and her sister a great trip and told both to take care of themselves.

    In a similar case in May 2009, an American woman and a Norwegian woman died after suffering severe vomiting and dehydration at a Phi Phi guesthouse.

    The cause of death was never determined.

    With a report from The Associated Press

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    Could it be some kind of organism? Animal or Vegetable? (rather than mineral)

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    Quote Originally Posted by CaptainNemo View Post
    Could it be some kind of organism? Animal or Vegetable? (rather than mineral)
    Yeah vegetable as in shroom shakes.

    If Canadians die, it might as well be Quebecers. Most socialist state in the country.

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    “There was a lot of vomit in the room, and both bodies showed similar signs [of trauma]. They had skin lesions and it seemed that they had bled from the gums. Also, their fingernails and toenails were blue,” Col Rat explained."

    Sounds like rat poison--warfarin, coumadin, etc--which causes bleeding, vomiting, bruising. Doesn't take much to kill. (Activated charcoal is first line of defense against most food, etc poisonings. Every traveler should have a packet of activated charcoal capsules in their kit and take them at first sign of feeling unwell--don't wait till vomiting etc starts).

    As was pointed out by another poster on other threads of Phi Phi victims and Chiang Mai victims, isn't it strange these victims are, like most of the others, young Western women.

    Looks like this serial killer has struck again.
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