Phuket:- A Japanese tour guide was found drowned holding to a rock two-meter under the sea at the Kalim Beach in Phuket on Valentine’s Day.

Police believe Hiroshi Yoshiki, 34, committed suicide because his hands were still holding to the rock when his body was found at 1:10 pm on Saturday.

The beach is located in Tambon Patong of Krathu district.

Pol Lt Thawatchai Srimai, an investigator of Krathu police station, said when the Japanese man was found, his legs were pointing to the surface of the water while his hands were in a self-lock to the rock and his head was pointing down.

Thawatchai believed Yoshiki committed suicide because he left his t-shirt, sports trousers, socks, shoes and his tour guide ID card on the rock. The clothes were neatly folded and placed on top of one another. The man was wearing only sports shorts.

Thawatchai said there was no trace of foul play at the scene and on Yoshiki’s body.

When his body was found, he had died about six to eight hours. His body was sent to the Patong Hospital for an autopsy to determine the cause of the death

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The rocks at the spot were frequented by shore anglers. One of them spotted Yoshiki’s body because the sea was clear. The area is opposite from Soi Phra Baramee 9.

Rescuers from the Kusoltham Foundation had to dive down to unlock his hands from the rock to retrieve the body.

Thawatchai said it was believed the Japanese tour guide arrived at the spot early in the morning and chose the spot and took off his clothes before walked into the sea and dived two-meters down and committed suicide.

If this had been found in Northern Europe, how would the report read? How would the investigation and conclusion be different?

maybe he refused some important bribes. How can a dead man hold onto a rock ??? Something not right here

Thailand is indeed the land of unusual suicides.....I would like to see the re-enactment !!

No matter how determined, I would be surprised by anyone who upon taking the last breath and dying could continue holding a rock. Given that upon death the muscles relax this is just illogical.

Agree with other posters. The official version makes no sense and sounds physically impossible. First of all, this is a very bizarre way to commit suicide - and even if this is true, as soon as he lost consciousness, he would release his grip and float to the surface. There is no mention of weights on his ankles or anything else which might have kept the poor man under water, so

the story does not add up as a suicide. It could have been a accident, of course - but then it wouldn't be a suicide. Hard to understand also conclusion that the victim's belongings being left on the rock suggests it was a suicide, rather than an accident.

RIP

Looks like this man was murdered.

In the final stages of drowning, the body undergoes an instinctive survival response which is immediately recognisable by a trained lifeguard. These movements are involuntary and include paddling of the arms in order to raise the the mouth above water and tilting the head back.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinctive_drowning_response

Thai police investigators are either the most incompetent and most feckless in the world or they have no compunction in releasing statements containing outright and ridiculous lies covering up homicides. (or both)

Edited February 15, 201511 yr by Briggsy

maybe he refused some important bribes. How can a dead man hold onto a rock ??? Something not right here

Super glue?

They have come out and really said this is how the poor bloke died? Complete and utter Borrocks!! How do these people sleep at night... thailand is amazing but not as amazing as the things they say and ideas they come up with??

sound like another foreigner killed - he didnt want to give RTP the Brown envelope ... ?

What Ocean is "The Phuket Sea" in ??

The dead man must be very fond of that rock. Holding on for dear life ... and death. You can't take your possessions with you to the afterlife.

R.I.P.