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Saved from a Patong drain, the big man in the hands of his rescuers

Drained - the Terrible Fate All Expats Walking Around Phuket Dread

By Pathomporn Kaenkrachang and Sert Tongdee
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

PHUKET: This dramatic photograph of an expat who slipped into a deep drain in Patong is published today for the first time.

The photograph was taken on September 27 as Kusoldharm Foundation workers struggled to free the man from his roadside ''tomb.''

The tourist had just alighted from a tuk-tuk near Nanai Road on a wet evening and slipped down a slope, into a drain.

Being a big man, he wedged in the narrow canal. The tuk-tuk driver on the scene - outside the Baan Nanai Hotel in Soi Six, Nanai Road - called police. Police in turn called the Kusoldharm Foundation.

The charity foundation workers stop at nothing to save a life. By the time the photograph was taken, they had manoeuvred the large man into a wider section of the canal.

But how to lift him out?

Before much time had passed, they managed to slip a rescue board beneath him. That gave the Kusoldharm Foundation team the leverage they needed to save the man from the Patong drain.