Thai Police Offer Reward For Missing British Tourist

[Scott]

I am very surprised they haven't found her body yet. I hope that someone posts something if she is found.

[Papa_Lazarou]

Don't think 'dead or alive' rewards really work unless it is a crook.

I mean, what if someone finds her alive....but she doesn't want to accompany him to the Police Station to help him collect his reward.

[Patex]

I am very surprised they haven't found her body yet...

Waiting for a higher reward...

[cutter007]

Oh my god. This is terrible news. I live in Phuket and didnt know about this...........

Lets hope she was wearing a life jacket, hopefully a brightly coloured one, which might make finding the body alive.

Also - there are 2 types of life jackets, and the cheaper ones, whilst keeping you afloat, would also tend to tip you forwards. So if you were unconcious, you would drown.

The industry needs to look at this maybe?

No one rafts or kayaks with the life jackets you are talking about with the float behind the neck.

If doesn't matter anyways if you are unconcious in rapids, and no one comes to help, you have a 99% chance of drowning no matter what kind of vest you are wearing.

I am a decent white water kayaker, and most of the rafting companies I have seen in Thailand are pretty good with safety standards.

It is a dangerous sport, and so as statistics go, people will die. You people stop all your non sense about fining the company and crap like that. You people need to go back to America, where you have to pay 10 times the price for anything like rafting and such, because every company has to buy all the kinds of insurance policies to protect them from people like you, that think everytime there is a death, someone needs to be punished.

Death comes to us all, and is the only real sure thing in life. Yet so many people think we need to blame someone everytime it occurs.

Edited August 21, 2006 by cutter007

[george]

Missing tourist believed found

PHANG NGA: -- A woman’s body, believed to be that of missing Scottish tourist Shenaz Kapoor, has been found near the Song Phraek waterfall in Phang Nga.

Miss Kapoor has been missing for nine days following a white-water rafting accident on August 15. (See earlier story here.)

The body was found in the water at around 6am today by a police dog team in the Baan Mae Nang area. A police spokesperson said that it has now been recovered and will be taken to a nearby hospital for autopsy and formal identification.

--Phuket Gazette 2006-08-24

[sriracha john]

Yes, the body found was her:

Family's grief at student's death

Ms Kapoor's body was found on Thursday

The family of a British student killed in a white water rafting accident in Thailand have spoken of their grief following her death. Law student Shenaz Kapoor, from Dundee, was thrown from a dinghy last Tuesday while on a trip to a popular rafting spot north of Phuket.

A search and rescue team found the 22-year-old's body trapped under a submerged rock on Thursday.

She had been working with youngsters orphaned by the tsunami disaster.

Ms Kapoor was in the dinghy with her best friend and two others when it suddenly overturned during a flash flood, said her uncle Yusuf Okhai.

Mr Okhai, 36, said the family were devastated at her death, adding: "She was one of those people who liked helping others, just an incredibly giving person.

"Every holiday she had seemed to spend helping orphans and she spent most her time in Dundee with community services."

Local police and residents in Phang Nga, 410 miles south of Bangkok, joined in the search for Ms Kapoor, whose body was found about five miles downstream from the accident spot.

She had gone rafting as part of a three-day break from voluntary work with children orphaned during 2004's Asian tsunami disaster.

Mr Okhai, managing director of successful Dundee-based computer products supplier Medea International, added: "We have been touched by the number of people who got in touch to talk about Shenaz."

Ms Kapoor's brother, Amar, 24, has travelled to Thailand to liaise with the authorities and bring her body back to Scotland.

She had been due to start her final year of a Law with Spanish degree at the University of Dundee in September.

A university spokesman said: "She made a tremendous contribution to university life at Dundee and she will be sadly missed by us all."

- BBC News

[tsattar]

Thai police offer reward for missing British tourist

BANGKOK: -- Thai police Saturday offered a reward for any sighting - dead or alive - of a British law student who went missing while white-water rafting near the holiday island of Phuket.

The search for the student Shenaz Kapoor, 22, from Dundee, Scotland, started when she fell in the fast-running water Tuesday at a popular rafting spot, but has been hampered by bad weather.

The local authorities attempted without much success use a local dam to reduce the water flow so that a thorough search of the river might be possible.

Kapoor is the second foreign national to have been lost while white-water rafting in Thailand within a week. The body of a Canadian woman was recovered from the Pai River in the north last Monday.

Kapoor had used part of her year off to work with Tsunami orphans in southern Thailand and was due to start the final year of a law degree at Dundee University in September. The incident happened in the Ton Parawat national park at Pha Ngan.

A local police spokesman told Thai radio that a 20,000-baht (500 dollars) reward had been offered to encourage local people to keep their eyes open because it was important to the family that they know without doubt the fate of the young woman.

Her grandfather, Ibrahim Okhai, is the head of the prominent Okhai business family in Dundee. She was a leading figure in her university's Islamic Society.

Okhai told the local Herald newspaper that the family had not given up hope: 'We gave her some spending money for the trip but she only used a fraction of it and gave the rest away. That's the type of person she is.'

Robin White, her university course adviser, told the Scotsman that 'Shenaz was not only a gifted student, she was also a very popular figure within the school, and she will be sadly missed by us all at the university.'

--DPA 2006-08-19

Yes, a very sad story and unfortunately the way it looks, an unfortunate end to a young person in the prime of their life.

As an aside though - are the press getting things a little mixed up here? Since when have Shenaz Kapoor and/or Ibrahim Okhai been Scottish names?

McKapoor or MacOkhai maybe ... but ...

[tsattar]

Thai police offer reward for missing British tourist

BANGKOK: -- Thai police Saturday offered a reward for any sighting - dead or alive - of a British law student who went missing while white-water rafting near the holiday island of Phuket.

The search for the student Shenaz Kapoor, 22, from Dundee, Scotland, started when she fell in the fast-running water Tuesday at a popular rafting spot, but has been hampered by bad weather.

The local authorities attempted without much success use a local dam to reduce the water flow so that a thorough search of the river might be possible.

Kapoor is the second foreign national to have been lost while white-water rafting in Thailand within a week. The body of a Canadian woman was recovered from the Pai River in the north last Monday.

Kapoor had used part of her year off to work with Tsunami orphans in southern Thailand and was due to start the final year of a law degree at Dundee University in September. The incident happened in the Ton Parawat national park at Pha Ngan.

A local police spokesman told Thai radio that a 20,000-baht (500 dollars) reward had been offered to encourage local people to keep their eyes open because it was important to the family that they know without doubt the fate of the young woman.

Her grandfather, Ibrahim Okhai, is the head of the prominent Okhai business family in Dundee. She was a leading figure in her university's Islamic Society.

Okhai told the local Herald newspaper that the family had not given up hope: 'We gave her some spending money for the trip but she only used a fraction of it and gave the rest away. That's the type of person she is.'

Robin White, her university course adviser, told the Scotsman that 'Shenaz was not only a gifted student, she was also a very popular figure within the school, and she will be sadly missed by us all at the university.'

--DPA 2006-08-19

Yes, a very sad story and unfortunately the way it looks, an unfortunate end to a young person in the prime of their life.

As an aside though - are the press getting things a little mixed up here? Since when have Shenaz Kapoor and/or Ibrahim Okhai been Scottish names?

McKapoor or MacOkhai maybe ... but ...

--DPA 2006-08-30

The Scotsman - Scotland's national newspaper!

[tsattar]

The Scotsman is Scotland's national newspaper..I did not realise it was that difficult to understand!!

Edited August 30, 2006 by tsattar