Thai woman missing after apparent suicide jump from Somdet Phra Pinklao Bridge

By Supachai Phetchthewee 
The Nation

 

 

A Thai woman in her 20s or 30s is assumed to have committed suicide by jumping from the Somdet Phra Pinklao Bridge into the Chao Phraya River early Monday morning, Bang Yi Khan police inspector Pol Lt-Colonel Narong Mankhong said.

 

Rescue workers responding to a 2.30am incident report rushed to the scene and sent out boats to search for the missing woman, but the operation proved to be fruitless, said Narong, who was part of the response team. 

 

Their plan to use divers in the search was called off as the river was too dangerous for such an operation due to earlier downpours, and the fact that the section of the river had many large boats passing through, the inspector explained.

 

Narong said an initial police investigation found that the unnamed woman had hailed a taxi from The Sense Pinklao mall on Boromrajajonani Road to the middle of the bridge. 

 

After paying the fare, she went straight to the bridge rail and jumped off, officers were told. 

 

A group of young men and women later contacted the police as they suspected the suicidal woman was their friend. 

 

They told police that she had joined their drinking party at the mall before she became tearful, lamenting that they would not see each other again, but without elaborating on the issue or issues that she was distressed about. 

 

She got up from the table and left the party, leaving behind her mobile phone. 

 

As she failed to return, they became suspicious and looked for her, which was when they heard about the suicide-jump and feared the worst, Narong said.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356462

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-10-15

Nichapa’s body found floating on Chao Phraya near Rama VIII Bridge

By The Nation

 

 

The body of a woman was found floating on the Chao Phraya River near the Rama VIII Bridge on Tuesday, police report.

 

The Boworn Mongkol police station was alerted at 11am to a body spotted floating in the middle of the river in Bangkok's Bang Plad district.

 

The body was retrieved and sent to the Forensic Medicine Institute at Police Hospital for a post-mortem.

 

Police immediately suspected that the body might be the woman who took a taxi to the middle of Somdet Phra Pinklao Bridge early on Monday morning.

 

Relatives had filed a complaint with police that Nichapha Phoyai, 33, went missing after drinking with friends on Sunday night. They said she might have suicided by jumping from the bridge after a quarrel with her boyfriend.

 

Relatives later rushed to the hospital and confirmed that the body was Nichapha.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30356523

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-10-16

18 hours ago, webfact said:

suicided

Is that a word?

21 minutes ago, rtco said:

Is that a word?

Not sure, but it consists of characters.

32 minutes ago, rtco said:

Is that a word?

It is now. In Thailand it might become one of the more frequently used words.

1 hour ago, rtco said:

Is that a word?

Another septic term, just like burglarized.

32 minutes ago, Belzybob said:

Another septic term, just like burglarized.

As a non native English speaker I'm confused like a chameleon in a box of smarties. Maybe I'm idiotized by now

Poor lady....... she must have felt so lonely......

Even the taxi driver didn't care enough to ask her why

she wanted to be left alone at night in the middle of a bridge......