January 10, 200620 yr 75-year-old French tourist drowns off Satun's island SATUN: -- A 75-year-old French man has drowned off a tourist island in this southern province in what police believed was an accident. Pol Lt Col Songwut Yansuphap, deputy commander of the Langu district police station, said the man drowned in the sea off Bulone island in front of the Pan Sand Resort at about 5:30 pm on Monday. His wife and other witnesses told police that the French man swam in the sea with his wife at 5:30 pm and disappeared. Friends and officials of the resort tried in vain to locate him until his body was found Tuesday morning. --The Nation 2006-01-11
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