Accident Trat: Boy, 10, Killed as Storm Uproots Tree onto Fruit Farm Hut

[Georgealbert]

 

Picture courtesy of Matichon.

 

A violent storm that swept through Trat province on the morning of 14 June, has claimed the life of a 10-year-old boy after a large tree was toppled onto a fruit farm shelter where he had been resting.

 

At 10:39, the Sawang Boonchuay Rescue Foundation received an emergency call reporting a tree collapse in Moo 4, Ban Khlong On, Non Sree Subdistrict, Bo Rai District. Rescue teams from the Bo Rai division rushed to the scene.

Upon arrival, rescuers found that a large ma-mae tree (Antidesma bunius) had fallen due to powerful winds, crushing a small shelter situated in the middle of a fruit orchard. The boy, identified only as Phanu aged 10, had been lying down in the hut when the incident occurred. A steel beam struck his head, causing fatal injuries.

 

Emergency crews had to use cutting equipment to remove the twisted metal and retrieve the boy’s body, as his devastated parents watched on in grief.

 

The storm is part of a pattern of extreme weather that has battered parts of eastern Thailand in recent days, with officials urging residents to remain alert to further risks of falling trees and structural collapses during high winds.

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Matichon 2025-06-15