An 8-year-old boy drowned in the Mun River while attempting to retrieve money from a floating krathong during Loy Krathong festivities. Rescue teams spent over five hours searching before recovering his body from the river.

 

Police Lieutenant Colonel Ratthaphon Polkaew, Deputy Inspector at Warin Chamrap Police Station in Ubon Ratchathani Province, received a report of a boy drowning near the pier by Wat Phoonsim in Nong Kin Plae Subdistrict. Rescue teams from the Jeetum Kor Foundation and Sawang Buchatham Foundation were dispatched to the scene with divers.

 

According to a friend of the deceased, the boy, identified only as “Master A,” had invited him to go fishing at the pier. While there, Master A noticed a krathong near a long-tail boat docked at the pier. He climbed onto the boat in an attempt to retrieve it but lost his grip, fell into the water, and disappeared beneath the surface.

 

Divers searched the river for over five hours before finding the boy’s body submerged approximately 20 metres from the shore.

 

Authorities handed over the boy’s body to his family for funeral arrangements and religious rites.

 

Picture from responders.

-- 2024-11-17

 

 

What a shame, it was probably a few 20 baht notes at best.

 

Amazed how many Thai ppl cannot swim

 

 

The Ministry of Education should make swimming class in all schools as an obligation.. Too many kids die as nobody teach them how to swim....Here there is in front of a famous school a beautiful swimming pool, always empty and the water is of bad quality as nobody goes swimming.. So clean the pool and send the kids to swimming class, they only need to cross the road.. Much better than standing in line every morning or practice for walking for hours for a scouts event and many more silly activities.