Lucky Escape For Mother, Baby As Phuket Hillside Resort Wall Collapses

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Lucky escape for mother, baby as Phuket hillside resort wall collapses

Phuket Gazette

A worker at the resort in Patong ropes off the area where the wall collapsed, tumbling onto houses below. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar

Atchara Jutisen (in wheelchair), 28, at Patong Hospital shares her joy that her baby boy Attawat 'Pig' Chottantikul (pictured) escaped serious injury in the wall collapse. Photo: Thawit Bilabdullar

PHUKET: -- A mother and her 3-month-old baby boy made a lucky escape as a wall from a Phuket hillside resort came crashing down on their home in Patong on Saturday morning.

Responding to a call at 9:45am, Patong Police officers led by Lt Col Pratuang Polmana and rescue workers from the Kusoldharm Foundation rushed to the scene, below The Senses Resort and Spa in Soi Nanai 1.

“Atchara Jutisen, 28, and her baby boy Attawat ‘Pig’ Chottantikul were in their house when the accident happened,” said Lt Col Pratuang.

“Luckily, nobody was in the house next door, which was also damaged,” he added.

Ms Atchara and young Attawat were taken to Patong Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.

“Me and my baby were in the house, then I heard a very loud noise – like thunder – crashing onto our roof,” Ms Atchara told police at the hospital.

“I was very frightened. I ran as fast as I could to get to my baby and protect him before the roof fell on us.

“I have a cut on my head, but it is such a miracle that my baby is safe. He only cried because the loud noise scared him,” she said.

Col Pratuang said his officers were now looking into why the four-meter boundary wall collapsed.

“Police will contact the hotel owner to ensure responsibility for the damage [to the houses] is recognized. At this stage, the damage is estimated to be about 300,000 baht,” Col Pratuang said.

“We will also contact the relevant departments to ask that they investigate construction being done at the site,” he added.

Source: http://www.phuketgaz...pses-19338.html

-- Phuket Gazette 2012-11-05

[PETERTHEEATER]

Looking at image # 1, it was an accident waiting to happen, Rainfall soaking into the soil around the wall foundations and the weight of the wall doing the rest. It featured on Thai TV News this morning with a poorly dressed farang in the picture.

[Halion]

Truly a lucky escape for both the young lady and her baby and a miracle that they were no others envolved. God Bless

As an aside it appears that in most of these articles , at least the 2nd paragraph in such reports contain a form page where only the name of the responding police, Lt. Col. somebody or other is added stating that he "rushed to the scene" on hearing about the incident. He did not go , walk arrive, travel but "rushed", I every article they are rushing,casting aside his Moo Deng, Leo and Som Tam. After nearly 30 years in Thailand I have never found "rushing" to be part of the culture.

[thirteenalpha]

I wonder if a structural engineer was involved in the construction of the wall or if it was built by the village people.

[Dap]

Truly a lucky escape for both the young lady and her baby and a miracle that they were no others envolved. God Bless

As an aside it appears that in most of these articles , at least the 2nd paragraph in such reports contain a form page where only the name of the responding police, Lt. Col. somebody or other is added stating that he "rushed to the scene" on hearing about the incident. He did not go , walk arrive, travel but "rushed", I every article they are rushing,casting aside his Moo Deng, Leo and Som Tam. After nearly 30 years in Thailand I have never found "rushing" to be part of the culture.

Apart from sports, any time I see a Thai running, I just figure they are headed to a bathroom.

[xylophone]

I wonder if a structural engineer was involved in the construction of the wall or if it was built by the village people.

No, don't think they ever got into construction!!!!