Two-Year-Old Boy Drowns in Shrimp Pond in Nakhon Si Thammarat

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture from responders.

 

At midday on 22 January, police from Pak Phanang Police Station in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province received a distressing report of a child drowning in a shrimp pond in Moo 6, Pak Praek Subdistrict, Pak Phanang District. Officers, along with rescue personnel from the Pracharuamjai Foundation, rushed to the scene.

 

The incident occurred behind a house identified as No. 3. Relatives had already retrieved the lifeless body of 2-year-old Sitthinan “Dew” Meesawat from the shrimp pond. Despite attempts at CPR and a rushed transfer to Pak Phanang Hospital, the boy was pronounced dead before arrival. The event left family members devastated, particularly Ms. Yaowadee Bangmuang, 43, the boy’s mother, who collapsed twice, once at the scene and again outside the hospital emergency room.

 

According to Ms. Yaowadee, her husband Mr. Manoch Meesawat 61, had left for work that morning. She remained at home with their son, Dew, and his grandmother. While preparing lunch in the kitchen, Ms. Yaowadee left the boy with his grandmother in a locked room. However, upon returning, she discovered the door ajar and Dew missing.

 

A frantic search ensued inside the house, around the property, and near the shrimp pond behind their home. Unable to locate Dew, she turned off the pond’s oxygen circulation system, at which point his body floated to the surface near the pond’s edge. Despite immediate efforts to rescue him and seek medical assistance, the boy could not be saved.

 

Preliminary investigations suggest that Dew may have unlocked the door and wandered outside to the shrimp pond, where he fell in and drowned. Medical professionals will conduct a full post-mortem examination to confirm the exact cause of death.

 

-- 2025-01-23