Point power Phuket killer requires Clear and Public explanation

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PHUKET: Police removed can set on a trail to Patong which is criticized for having caused the death of a British tourist from 20 years in the flood of rain last week.

A worker itself bengali, a street popular walk attracts thousands of tourists, said Phuketwan that police officers removed the point of power Plug-and-forward minutes journalist arrived on the scene Friday.

Other people working near the paved section trail outside the ocean Plaza store to Soi Bangla said workers knew that the plug, defined in paving the ground level, could be dangerous. They avoided to go near it, especially in wet weather.

Charles Antoine Thomas, 20, a British tourist, had no such inside knowledge. As a visitor, he was unaware that his life was in danger in a pouring rain on 06 Thursday morning as Patong – and the important sections of Phuket – began to invade.

Witnesses reported that the young man collapsed in seating the power Plug-and-point position, with electrical recharge through his body.

A friend of Mr Thomas and travel companion has been too traumatized by the event to describe what happened, but witnesses say he and others tried to free Mr. Thomas and were lucky to escape with their lives.

The Thailand has a reputation for bad wiring. Earlier this year, a Swedish couple died when their shower to Krabi resort became “live”. This type of electrical nightmare was also held on Phuket.

Canadian Noah Yelizarov, 19, died after an electric shock on October 9, 2004, Phuket vacation with three friends.

Wading in the genus Patong flood waters that covered large areas Thursday, the young man was electrocuted when exposed on a utility pole son sent a deadly charge in water.

The death of Mr. Thomas is now likely to renew the outcry on poor quality still standards clearly occurring at the heart of which is the most popular tourist destination of Phuket.

Patong police have so far been reluctant to speculate on the matter.

However, it appears that one of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who have travelled this popular street rain or shine so far this year might have been a victim. As far as we know, there may be other points of power in pavement.

It should not be a master of technology whether that points of power should not be set in the ground anywhere, especially where thousands of people walk and where rain often falls in large quantities.

Local authorities are likely to be called to answer questions on behalf of the tourism industry in Phuket.

It is expected that the British Embassy will continue to press for more details on this case. Other embassies have a large number of visitors to Phuket will also seek an explanation to this unnecessary death.

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Phuket must prepare in time wild, landslides, floods: Expert

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PHUKET: Of Phuket Director, Department of prevention of disasters and mitigation also criticized construction and waste for a large part of the flood damage of spent 24 hours – and said that Phuket needs to be better prepared for wild times.


“People give enough thought to this kind of event,” said San Janthawong the DDPM.

“Cooperation is needed to ensure of garbage block drains and each local Council must ensure that construction sites are strictly controlled”.


Phuket tonight was cleaning after the intense that briefly suspended flights to Phuket International Airport, flooded Patong literally depth of waste in places, destroys houses in a landslide and cut power to much of the West Coast.


Families in at least a village of Chalong, with their houses still filled with water, were bedding in the tents, tonight.


Most tragic of all, the family of a British tourist in 20 years has been mourning his death by electrocution in a puddle “live” to Soi Bangla on 06. A friend was lucky to escape with less severe shock.


With more rain forecast and the possibility of flooding more, owner of pharmacy of Patong Bongkotmas Ruangsri echoed the opinion of many merchants when she said: “Patong is simply not prepared for this kind of thing.


“Other flood-prone centres have the ability to get sick and output and to rescue people in potential danger. I have seen any vehicles or vessels. »


Khun Bongkotmas was actively shifting of goods in his shop “90 pharmacy” on the floor where they will remain dry, and where she intended to spend tonight in the case of a second severe flood combat.


“I was four years and never given something like it”, she said.


Khun San of the DDPM said that it is clear today that each Board of Phuket needed an excavator which could erase the channels in an emergency.


“One of the main difficulties is that channels are often limited by the greedy land owners who seek to optimize the space on their land”, he said.


“The result is that when there is exceptional rainfall, water cannot escape.”


Landslides were another fear, especially with forecasts for more rain this week, he said.


He said “Each local Council must ensure that construction sites are consistent with the rules”. “There must be serious action on this issue, or there will be disastrous landslides a day”.


At least two houses and a vehicle were severely damaged today in a landslide in central Kathu.


“Owners of land where building took place always denied responsibility. “The law is full of faults”, he said.


“Anyone who leaves Phuket for six months, then returns note the rapidity of change”.


Around the region of Phuket, other provinces were also severely affected by the wild weather. The road between Phang Nga and Surat Thani was cut, the centre holiday in Khao Lak reported severe flooding and more rain was forecast for the whole of the Andaman coast Sunday.


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Phuket Villages still as threat of sliding supports flood control

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PHUKET: Residents in three villages in Phuket are fighting to clear their homes flood waters this afternoon that the Department of disaster prevention and mitigation has intensified its warning that continuing torrential rain could trigger landslides and slides.

In the worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami, a total of 1590, Phuket families in 37 villages were forced from their homes by floods between Thursday and Saturday.

Thousands of tourists of plu – in were also hit, with constant storms and since long blackouts in Surin 15 yesterday to 02 stations this morning not to encourage satisfied and relaxing feeling that induce Phuket beach vacations usually.

As with the 2004 tsunami, many people not in the areas devastated on Phuket went about their business as to the usual step touched except by the rain.

Others were not so fortunate, with flooding houses, cutting off roads and damaging of Patong, Kamala, Chalong, Thepkasattri, Srisunthorn and parts of the city of Phuket.

Today the Director of Phuket, Department of prevention disasters and mitigation, San Janthawong, is concerned only with rain now forecasts through until Monday, the danger of landslides and of slides increases.

All local councils “are in a State of emergency alert”, he said today. “I am particularly concerned about construction hillside sites.”

Bad weather continues to be forecast for Phuket and 20 other provinces, Ranong, Phang Nga, Krabi, Satun and Trang. Small boats are advised not to the sea because of strong winds and high waves are predicted.

DDPM statistics show that, with 37 villages affected and three still dealing with flooding, emergency workers evacuate 500 families in Patong, 350 chalong, Rassada 250 and 300, Thepkasattri.

Only a landslide has been saved for the moment.

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