A 33-year-old Chinese tourist Chen Ronggui, died after falling from the sixth floor of a hotel off Soi Korphai, in South Pattaya during the early hours of 21 May 2026. The man crashed into a glass roof at the front entrance of the hotel, leaving his body suspended on a steel support beam before emergency crews recovered him.
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Police from Pattaya City Police Station were alerted to the incident at 3.35am. Pol Lt Col Alis Phuangsai, an investigating officer, attended the scene alongside detectives and rescuers from the Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Pattaya rescue foundation.
Officers found the victim wearing only boxer shorts, with heavy blood loss visible below the shattered glass canopy. Broken glass was scattered across the hotel entrance as police secured the area and prevented access to the scene.
Investigators later examined the sixth-floor room where the tourist had been staying. Inside, they found another Chinese man asleep in the room. Officers also discovered alcohol bottles and discarded seed shells spread across the floor, although there were no signs of a struggle or evidence that property had been disturbed.
Police said the deceased had arrived at the hotel with a group of Chinese friends occupying several rooms and that this was their second night at the property. He had been sharing the room with the other Chinese national, who is now being questioned as the last known person to have been with him before the fall.
A hotel security guard told officers he heard a loud crash resembling a heavy object striking the glass roof outside the building. When he rushed to investigate, he discovered the tourist’s body suspended on the steel structure surrounded by blood stains and immediately contacted authorities.
Rescue workers used ropes to secure the body before lowering it safely from the damaged canopy. The body was then transferred to Pattaya Patamakun Hospital before being sent for a detailed post-mortem examination at the Police General Hospital’s Institute of Forensic Medicine in Bangkok.
Police have not confirmed the cause of the fall and said the investigation remains ongoing. Detectives are continuing to question witnesses and examine evidence from the hotel to establish the circumstances surrounding the death.
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Adapted by ASEAN Now SiamChon 21 May 2026