Phuket thief robs room while Chinese tourist couple still sleep

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Zhang Min, 24, contemplates how the burglar scaled the wall to reach her room on the first floor. Photo: Eakkapop Thongtub

 

PHUKET: -- Police are on the hunt for a cat burglar who entered a first-floor Phuket resort room while a Chinese tourist couple were still sleeping and stole cash and valuables in the early hours of Sunday morning (Feb 26).

 

Thalang Police were notified of the break-in, at Supalai Pasak Resort & Spa in Pa Khlok, on Phuket’s east coast, at 10:30am yesterday.

 

Officers led by investigator Lt Phetthon Changaid arrived and found the balcony door had been forced open.

 

Zhang Min, 24, told police that she and her partner, Lai Gang, 28, went out to Patong at about 11pm and returned to their room at about 1am.

 

The couple, both from Sichuan, went to sleep and woke the next morning to find a friend staying next door telling them that a bag was on the ledge between the balconies to the two rooms.

 

Full story: http://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-thief-robs-room-while-chinese-tourist-couple-still-sleep-61177.php

 

-- © Copyright Phuket News 2017-02-27

 

another reason why one should not stay on first / ground floor rooms

Lured comes to mind.

Don't believe they stole valuables from the type of Chinese tourists that come here.  More like they stole 10 umbrellas  and 3 fake hand bags.