Thread: Phuket Expat Deaths Hit 49, Plus Recent Drownings

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

No name male, nationality unknown found hanged January 6 in forest near Laem Ka Noi

I think this one's sad. No one knows who he was and those who knew him don't know he's dead.

^^That is kind of weird. Maybe it's because they died of their injuries later on in the hospital, unlike Longfellow who died on the spot. Just speculating.....

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Strange way to list these murders, only dashawn listed as murdered.

Thais don't murder foreigners, death by misadventure is probably how they see it.

What does David Carradines neck and dick have in common ?


A rope.

"(Ms) Gabriella Rosemarie Strand Swedish died May 29 at Loma Park restaurant, electric shock"

Seems strange in a restaurant. How do you even come close to wires?

Originally Posted by tuktukdriver

"(Ms) Gabriella Rosemarie Strand Swedish died May 29 at Loma Park restaurant, electric shock"

Seems strange in a restaurant. How do you even come close to wires?

Don't be silly they served her an undercooked electric eel!

Personally I think the unluckiest was ....being struck with bottle by katoey in Patong was dead unlucky!

party, party, party

from memory . . .
Wolf Dieter Eugen Kbelheim was the one who was stabbed after a cutting off (in 4wd) and abusing Thai on mbike -'traffic incident' at Chalong roundabout - he had the Thai male in a headlock. Was reported as being pissed. And German. Never saw anything re trial maybe too early

Simone Tenerello Italy April 17 struck with bottle by katoey in Patong - was reported as punching anyone/everyone -drunk or drugged maybe. One hit back.

Gabriella Rosemarie Strand Swedish was one of the two so-called 'Scamdinavians' homeless beggars that the Swedes wouldn't help send home; there was a thread about them, been begging/living rough a long time. Maybe she'd crawled in there to sleep

official figures involving expats on Phuket that will be presented to honorary consuls and embassy representatives at the Governor's special quarterly meeting on Monday.

i wonder what they plan to do about it?

The only obvious thing is to get lifeguards for the beaches. They couldn't do that last time they tried, could they? Something about nobody wanting a multi million baht contract to provide the service

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Lattner Ralf Germany February 8 heart attack at Patong
Gian Pietro Perone Italy February 10 heart attack in Patong
Apostolos Pentefountas Greece February 16 heart attack in Patong
Lars Evert Lennart Thor Sweden April 1 heart attack at Patong
Ludex Novax Netherlands March 27 heart attack in hotel at Patong

I guess the last one choose the "take away" option

Originally Posted by Poo and Pee

i wonder what they plan to do about it?

They will probably make all farangs visiting Phuket to purchase mandatory insurance to cover their funeral expenses.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home...-30136661.html

52 FOREIGNERS KILLED IN PHUKET THIS YEAR

By Yongyot Preuksarak
The Nation
Published on August 26, 2010

Fiftytwo foreign tourists have died in the island province of Phuket this year, police revealed yesterday.

- mostly from illness but also through accidents and crime.

Phuket police chief Pol MajGeneral Pikad Tantipong told a meeting of foreign consulate representatives and Thai state and private agencies, that some 60 tourists died in Phuket in 2008 and 28 in 2009. Alcohol was involved in most of the crimes involving tourists, he added.

This year, from January until August 17, 52 tourists had died in Phuket from accidents, suicide, murder and illness, Pikad said. There were 126 criminal cases with foreign tourists as suspects and 24 cases with foreigners as victims, he said.

The German Embassy also inquired about the case of Thai officials seizing the passport of an arrested national. The embassy reminded officials a passport is its government's property and asked for its return. Thai officials have urged police to meet with embassy officials for mutual understanding and to save future embarrassment.

Pikad explained that when police arrest a foreign suspect, they must check his passport. If the suspect is found to be guilty, police seize his passport to prevent him fleeing the country.

If he is just a suspect, police photocopy his passport and return the original, he said. In case of road accidents in which a tourist is liable for damages, he said police will also seize the passport and return it after the damage payment is made in full.

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Quote: Originally Posted by StrontiumDog Dashawn Longfellow American, died August 14 at Ya Nui Resort II, Rawai, murdered Quote: Originally Posted by StrontiumDog Wolf Dieter Eugen Kbelheim Germany January 27 attacked with knife outside 7-Eleven Quote: Originally Posted by StrontiumDog Simone Tenerello Italy April 17 struck with bottle by katoey in Patong Strange way to list these murders, only dashawn listed as murdered.

That is disturbing, even an idiot can see an issue here!

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/lies-da...tistics-12936/


A lifeguard at Karon tells tourists to leave the water after a drowning
Photo by phuketwan.com/file


Lies, Damn Lies and Phuket Drowning Statistics

By Alan Morison and Chutima Sidasathian
Monday, September 6, 2010
News Analysis

PROMISING results are being achieved in saving lives on Phuket's roads and probably in the water, too. Latest statistics reflect safety campaigns on the roads and an improved beach lifeguard service.

However, there's just one problem. Phuketwan knows there was at least one death from drowning in July, a month that Phuket Public Health statistics say was free from drownings on and around Phuket.

Just-released Public Health stats also show five deaths on Phuket roads in July. This compares with 12 deaths in July 2009. Year on year, the total for January-July so far is 77 deaths compared to 94 in the same period last year.

And the July total for injuries on the roads was under 1000 for the third month in a row - a statistic that has not been seen previously in recent times.

A dramatic change in attitude and approach, spearheaded by Phuket City police superintendent Colonel Wanchai Eakporntip and his helmet-wearing campaign, is being credited with saving lives and preventing pain and suffering on Phuket.

Improvements may also be expected in August, which last year produced the horrifyingly large tally of 19 deaths on Phuket in one month.

Drownings on and around Phuket have also been reduced, with 20 deaths attributed to drowning to the end of July compared to 36 at the same stage last year. The 2009 figure included seven deaths in a dive-boat capsize.

According to Phuket Public Health statistics, there were no drownings on or around Phuket in July - the only drowning-free month recorded recently. However, Phuketwan is aware of at least one drowning in July that appears to have gone unrecorded.

July drowning victim Rumanian Gheorge Paulivc died in Bangkok Phuket Hospital after having been first taken from the sea off Karon beach to Patong Hospital. Two more drownings, one at Karon beach and another at neighboring Kata beach, took place soon after, on the same Sunday afternoon in early August.

Strangely, the deaths of Mr Paulivc and the two other tourists, Chao Dakun, 47, from China, and Ali Abdulaziz Salman Alsaeed, 24, from Bahrain, were omitted from a list of expat deaths produced for the Phuket governor's quarterly meeting with honorary consuls and embassy representatives last month.

Now Mr Paulivc's death fails to be recorded in the official island statistics for drownings in July.

Accurate statistics are essential so action can be taken, when required, to save lives in future. To have these three beach drownings of tourists go unrecorded could lead to the false impression that Karon and Kata beaches are safe places to swim at this time of the year.

If that lie was reflected, for whatever reason, in Phuket's official statistics, the spirits of those three drowned victims would rise up in horror. Those of us who are still alive and have a high regard for accurate statistics would also be entitled to be very unhappy, too.

A spokesperson for Phuket Public Health said today that their statistics were based on information supplied by Phuket's three public hospitals. It was up to the private hospitals to supply any additional information about other deaths, she said.

Phuketwan's view: That's simply not good enough. If statistics are to be believed, they have to be comprehensive, and they have to be accurate. It must surely be mandatory for all hospitals to report all deaths.

It's time Phuket Public Health and all of Phuket's hospitals, which claim to be up to international standards, accepted responsibility for keeping track of the island's fatalities.

To die while on holiday is shocking. To drown and have your death not even noted, not even recorded as a means of preventing the same thing happening to others, would be reprehensible.

*About 60 lifeguards are undergoing five days of intensive training at Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort this week. The third annual Phuket Lifesaving Carnival is being held at Loma Park in Patong on September 11.

Originally Posted by Davis Knowlton

^^That is kind of weird. Maybe it's because they died of their injuries later on in the hospital, unlike Longfellow who died on the spot. Just speculating.....

I wonder how many were killed by that mandatory little step at he entrance to the Hong Nam?
or that specially designed step thats a different drop size to all the other stairs?

( shouldn't laugh , both have nearly killed me a couple of times).

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

If statistics are to be believed, they have to be comprehensive,

Good luck in Thailand. They will just lie to keep the tourists coming, and threaten and intimidate anyone that tells the truth.

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/six-phu...ecorded-13267/


Six Phuket Expat Drownings, Deaths, Go Unrecorded

By Alan Morison
Wednesday, November 17, 2010


THREE drownings of tourists on Karon beach and one on neighboring Kata beach have gone unrecorded in police statistics that are intended to list every expat death on Phuket.

The deaths of two Australians have also gone unrecorded, making a total of at least six expat deaths unaccounted for on what is intended to be a complete list of all expat deaths so far on Phuket in 2010.

All six deaths fail to appear in a preliminary list of 67 expat deaths seen by Phuketwan in advance of the quarterly summit meeting of Phuket Governor Tri Augkaradacha with honorary consuls and embassy representatives.

The list, incomplete though it is, is due to be presented to as many as 22 national representatives and representatives of Thailand's Foreign Ministry at a meeting set for Monday. Two ambassadors from embassies in Bangkok may also be present.

Three of the deaths, all drownings at Karon and Kata, were also absent from a list presented to an earlier meeting in August. With these three drownings now increased to four - and all missing from the list - the wrong impression is being conveyed about the safety of Karon beach in the monsoon season.

Latest drowning victim to be left off the list of dead is Dimitry Kuznephov, 40, who drowned at Karon beach on November 8. A Thai man, Kittisak Klongpiled, 25, drowned at Karon beach on the same day.

The head of Phuket's lifeguard service has called for Karon beach to be closed to swimmers on dangerous days unless more intense measures are taken to protect the lives of swimmers.

But if deaths by drowning continue to go officially unrecorded, the call for improved safety measures loses its meaning and purpose.

The three drownings, previously reported by Phuketwan to be missing from an earlier expat death list, have yet to be added despite the three months that have passed since the omissions were first noted.

They are Rumanian Gheorghe Paulivc, who drowned at Karon on July 20; Bahraini Ali Abdulaziz Al Saeed, who drowned at Karon on August 8, and Chinese Zhao Dakun who drowned at neighboring Kata beach on the same Sunday afternoon.

Two other missing expat deaths take the total of unrecorded deaths to six. Not included on the list are Australians Stephen Lawton, 55, who collapsed and died in a Karon street on October 22, and Graham Nicholas Jackson, 54, who was found dead in a guesthouse room on October 2 after suffering a prolonged fever.

The new Australian Ambassador to Thailand, James Wise, is making his first official visit to Phuket later this week.

The omission of at least one drowning has also occurred on official figures. According to Phuket Public Health statistics, there were no drownings on or around Phuket in July - the only drowning-free month recorded recently.

However, Rumanian Gheorge Paulivc died in Bangkok Phuket Hospital after having been first taken from the sea off Karon beach to Patong Hospital in July.

Phuket's 67 expat deaths for the year so far - excluding the four drownings and the deaths of the two Australians plus possibly other deaths about which Phuketwan has no knowledge - are as follows:

Phuket Expat Deaths, August 15 to November 12

Adiano Mazza Italy heart attack on August 18 in Soi Nanai Patong
Keith Barrington Jones England of cancer on August 18 at Patong Hospital
Ms Vera Lovtsova Russia car mishap on August 26 at Tesco Lotus intersection
Josef Stefan Distler Germany chronic illness on August 15 at Patong Hospital
James William Bourke Australia drowning on September 1 in pool at Banthai Resort, Patong
Peter Vincenz Ullrich Switzerland in fall on September 7 at Patong guesthouse
Mai Wei Qiang China road mishap on August 30 in Phuket City
Brian Bibby England on October 13 overdose of drugs at Gallery Hotel, Patong
Lee Jae Yup South Korea on September 14 by hanging at Tina Hotel, Patong
Alexandr Chupin Russia drowning on October 17 at Surin beach
Herbert Sebastian Germany of chronic illness on October 14 at Phuket City
Agalonov Alexy Russia drowned on October 18 at Nai Thon beach
Joseph Edward Australia of heart attack on October 20 at West Guesthouse Patong
Markku Juhani Smatt Finland of heart attack October 27 in Patong Hopsital
Peter Williams US suicide on October 27 at apartment house in Phuket City
Leif Erik Sune Hedlund Sweden heart complaint on October 27 at Duangjit Resort Patong
Said Mutafa Kamal Indonesia on October 31 of stomach complaint at Thalang Hospital
Jon Kristian Seljeseth Norway jumped from apartment block on November 12 in Patong

Phuket Expat Deaths, January 1 to August 14

Barry Cutler Britain Fell down steps January 5 at home in Phuket City
No name male, nationality unknown found hanged January 6 in forest near Laem Ka Noi
Michael Malonzo Australia died January 15 in Siam Safari crash, Nakkerd Hill
Jean Hubert Doonay Belgium died January 24 Phuket Graceland of old age
Wolf Dieter Eugen Kbelheim Germany January 27 attacked with knife outside 7-Eleven
Richard Johnson US hanged February 5 at home in Rawai
Rudolf Ducke Germany February 7 road crash in Rawai
Lattner Ralf Germany February 8 heart attack at Patong
Gian Pietro Perone Italy February 10 heart attack in Patong
Gerhard Kurt Rodschinka Germany February 10 unknown cause at bungalow Rawai
Nathan Edward Australia February 14 Fall at Hilton Phuket Hilton Arcadia Resort, Karon
Apostolos Pentefountas Greece February 16 heart attack in Patong
Thetaz Dominique Sylvie Switzerland February 25 cancer at home in Patong
Tarmuji Indonesia February 26 road crash in Phuket City
Hoger Heiz Schunka Germany March 2 cause unknown at Happy House, Karon
Donald Michael Craig Canada March 7 of chronic illness at Ao Sane bungalow
Joselito Macabio Vilegas Philippines March 11 road crash at Cherng Talay
Sorensen Henrik Love Denmark March 13 heart attack at resort in Patong
Dino Costa Italy March 19 cause unknown at Kamala beach in a dinghy
William Mann Britain March 22 of chronic illness at home in Kathu
Lindehoseberg Sonia Sweden March 28 drowning at Kata beach
Ludex Novax Netherlands March 27 heart attack in hotel at Patong
Jean-Luc Boutot France March 27 of chronic illness at Rawai
Lars Evert Lennart Thor Sweden April 1 heart attack at Patong
Loh Ying Jie Singapore April 2 jet-ski collision at Patong
Rampanaux Jean Pascal Sweden April 13 heart attack at resort in Kamala
Simone Tenerello Italy April 17 struck with bottle by katoey in Patong
Mikka Olavialltonen Finland April 24 overdose of Viagra at guesthouse in Patong
John Grant Kerr New Zealand May 3 motorcycle crash in Patong
Sergei Poliakov Russia May 9 motorcycle crash in Patak Road Karon
Alexander Drobot Russia May 10 found in car, cause unknown at home in Rawai
Lee Kam Yum China May 10 in car crash, Cherng Talay
Frank Visakay American died May 11 after a fatal fall at home
Pierre Antoine Giovanelli Switzerland died May 12 of old age in Kamala
Kevin William Dean British died May 23 at Club Coconut Hotel of chronic illness
Giglberger Karl Wilfried Germany died May 25 at Patong Hospital, chronic illness
Marek Klein German May 26 drowned at Surin beach
Kennert Rode Svahan Swedish died May 26 at Nordic Guesthouse Karon, heart attack
(Ms) Gabriella Rosemarie Strand Swedish died May 29 at Loma Park restaurant, electric shock
Morris Shawn Anthony Australia died June 10, leapt from Baan Kanjana Guesthouse, Patong
(Ms) Rebecca Louise Callaghan British, drowned June 12 at Karon beach, died later at Patong Hospital
Migliorini Carlo Italian, died June 15, Patong Hospital, of chronic illness
Lionel Le Cossec French, died June 17, suicide by hanging at Kathu
David Kenneth Gowenlock Australia, died June 21, at Patong Hospital of chronic illness
Per Ola Eriksson Swedish, died June 19 at Kata Residence, Karon, of chronic illness
Jamie Thomas Thow Australia, died June 22 at BYD Lofts, Patong, of illness
Mark Edward Stevens British, died July 18 at Bowman Resort, Patong, leapt from building
Adam John Sutcliffe Australia, died August 1 in motorcycle crash, Patong Hill
Dashawn Longfellow American, died August 14 at Ya Nui Resort II, Rawai, murdered

^ why is the death of Wolf Kbelheim classified as "attacked by knife" while another death, of Dashawn Longfellow which was also a stabbing, classified as "murdered?"

^Maybe a knife fell off a balcony.