Canadian tourist drowns in Mae Hong Son white-water rafting

Mae Hong Son - A Canadian woman drowned after falling off a raft during white-water rafting on the Pai River, police said.

Pol Capt Watchara Jaidee of Mae Hong Son's Muang district police station said the accident happened early Monday morning.

The tourist was identified as Susan van Amerom, 26.

Her body was found at 4 pm.

Watchara said the woman and three other foreign tourists were rafting from Pai district to Muang district on the river.

When the rubber raft reached the Kaeng Hin Mong rapid in Tambon Huaypha of Muang district, the raft lost control and the woman fell off and disappeared, the police officer said.

The Nation

Edited August 14, 200619 yr by sriracha john

Canadian woman drowns while whitewater rafting in northern Thailand

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - A Canadian woman drowned Monday after falling off a whitewater raft into rapids in northern Thailand, police said.

The woman, 26-year-old Susan Van Amerom, was rafting on the Pai River with three other foreign tourists in Mae Hong Son province, said a report on the Web site of The Nation newspaper.

Capt. Wachara Jaidee said Van Amerom fell off the rubber raft at the Kaeng Hin Mong rapids near the provincial capital Mae Hong Son, 650 kilometers (400 miles) north of Bangkok.

Wachara told The Associated Press her body had been found in the river later Monday. He didn't give a hometown for her.

- AP