BREAKING NEWS: Phuket boy, 6, drowns in wastewater pool

Phuket Gazette

Patong Municipality Water Treatment plant workers search for the body of 6-year-old Marvin in water treatment pool. Photo: Atchaa Khamlo

PHUKET: -- A six-year-old boy who went missing this morning was found drowned in a water treatment pool at the Patong Municipality Water Treatment Plant this afternoon.

The child, Yutthakarn “Marvin” Limtek, was staying with his aunt Siriwan Noothong, who lives near the water treatment plant on an unnamed soi that connects Rat-U-Thit 200 Pi and Phang Muang roads.

Ms Siriwan said Marvin’s father, Yutthana Limtek, 40, usually picked his son up early in the morning to take him to school, but was late today.

Mr Yutthana became a single parent after his wife abandoned him, about a year after Marvin was born, said Ms Siriwan.

Marvin went off to play near the treatment plant with an older boy. At around 10am the family realized he was missing.

A search for the boy started around 1pm.

Workers at the plant discovered the boy’s shoes floating on the algae-covered water's surface of a treatment pool, 18 meters in diameter.

They drained about half of the four-meter-deep pool so they could stand inside and search for his body, which was recovered at around 2:30pm.

The boy’s family are still in an inconsolable state of shock.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...ticle16414.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-07-13

RIP.

These stories always sadden me, the dread of every parent something like this.

RIP, a sad sad incident.

very sad, thats why i dont let the kid stay by himself with any thai unless its locked inside my own house. They try to do good(especially the 8-14year old ) but they have not been taught action/reaction so they always end up being more dangerous to the smaller kids than if they were left alone

Well, where is the older kid who he was playing with? If there was something wrong you would think he would have gone and told the family. RIP Marvin.

So sorry little Marvin. R.I.P