Three local Thai men died in tragic accident due to poisonous gas in deep well

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Three local Thai men dead!

Thursday, April 11, 2013, just before Songkran Festival, a local Thai man from Wok Tum, west coast of Koh Phangan Island, went to clean up a well, with depth of approximately 5-7 meter.

The local Thai man climbs down the well without any safety, like a ladder, a rope around his body or an oxygen mask …nothing!

He wants to put the dirt in a bucket and his daughter in law pulled up bucket with dirt.

He feel he can not breathe and he tells his daughter in law to pull him up, he climb on the wall, grab her hand and the pass out and fall down in the water.

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Koh Phangan Paradise Island – Don’t go if you value your life!

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Koh Phangan Island – Don’t go if you value your life

A British man has told British newspaper The Sun how he almost died in a stabbing at the same spot where British tourist Stephen Ashton was shot dead on Koh Phangan on January 1.

Backpacker Nathan Sharpe, 23, was speared by a six-inch blade which tore through his stomach, liver, pancreas and kidneys before grazing his spine, on Koh Phangan Island in May last year, The Sun reported.

The unprovoked attack took place yards from the bar on Koh Phangan where Mr Ashton, 23, was gunned down on New Year’s Day.

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Suratthani authorities discuss banning guns from Koh Phangan Paradise Island

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Original Koh Phangan Bullets!

Surat Thani authorities on Thursday held an urgent meeting to discuss the possibility of banning guns from Koh Phangan Island after a British man was caught in the crossfire between two groups of Thai men on New Year’s day.

Stephen Ashton, 23, was shot in the side by a stray bullet as he and his friends celebrated the first day of 2013 on the island at about 5am. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.

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Thai killer suspect confesses killing of British tourist on Koh Phangan Island

Thai Killer Ekkapan Kaewkla

Thai killer suspect confesses

The man suspected of killing Stephen Ashton allegedly confessed on Wednesday that he unintentionally shot the British tourist early in the morning of New Year’s day, police said.

Royal Thai Police adviser Pol Gen Rachot Yensuang, who interrogated Ekkapan Kaewkla on Wednesday, said the 26-year-old suspect had admitted to all charges against him and apologised for causing the death of Ashton and damage to tourism on Koh Phangan.

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Heaven or hell? Ashton’s death casts new light on Koh Phangan Paradise Island

Koh Phangan Heaven or Hell?

Koh Phangan Heaven or Hell?

Full-moon party craze on Koh Phangan Paradise Island have brought drownings, date-rapes, assaults – and now murder!

It’s described in Thailand’s tourist guides as paradise, but the ‘full-moon party’ island of Koh Phangan is for many unsuspecting visitors a vision of hell. Once a month, as the full moon rises over the island’s seemingly idyllic Haad Rin beach, tens of thousands of revelers swarm into its waterfront bars and discotheques and dance and drink the night away.

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Is Thailand Safe? Tourist Killing At Koh Phangan NYE Celebration Reignites Concerns

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Tourist Killing Koh Phangan

The death of a young British tourist at a New Year’s celebration on the resort island of Koh Phangan Tuesday was the latest in a series of crimes against foreigners that have left many wondering if Thailand is squandering its postcard-perfect assets by failing to protect its visitors.

Local police identified the murdered tourist as 22-year-old Stephen Ashton of South London. Ashton allegedly found himself in the middle of a gang-related shootout at a 2013 countdown party at Haad Rin, a popular stretch of beach on the Gulf of Thailand island that’s renowned for its full-moon parties.

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Koh Phangan Shooting – Thai Killer May Face Light Sentence

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Ekkapan Kaewkla

The family of Stephen Ashton issued a statement today expressing their devastation at his death as an innocent bystander.

And as they did so the Royal Thai Police announced that the alleged shooter would be charged with manslaughter and illegally carrying a fire-arm.

This may be of little comfort to the family reeling from the shock of the shooting of 22-year-old Stephen – who was taking a long break travelling to Australia – after leaving a job in the city, on the Thai party island of Koh Phangan early on New year’s morning.

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Thai man arrested after British tourist was shot dead on Koh Phangan Island

Thai Suspect Ekkapan Kaewkla

Thai Suspect Ekkapan Kaewkla

Police on Koh Phangan Island have arrested a Thai man after a British tourist was shot dead at a New Year’s Eve party when he was hit by a stray bullet as he danced with friends.

Police launched a search for a 26-year-old Thai man identified as Ekkapan Kaewkla, or Lae Kaewkla.

About noon, a team of police led by Pol Col Kittakarn searched for the suspect who was thought to have gone into hiding up in the mountain and arrested him in tambon Ban Tai. Mr Ekkapan was found with a home-made gun believed to have been used in the shooting.

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A British tourist was shot dead on the holiday island Koh Phangan after a quarrel with Thai youngsters

A 22 year old British tourist was shot dead as he danced at the New Year party on Koh Phangan islands after a fight between rival Thai gangs erupted on the beach, police said on Tuesday.

The holidaymaker was killed when a Thai man opened fire at a bar on the island of Koh Phangan in southern Thailand in the early hours of the morning.

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Engineers restore electric power on Koh Phangan Island

Electricity is back on Koh Samui and Koh Phangan Island after engineers spent the night successfully restoring electricity, reports said.

Having been without power for three days, residents and tourists on the two islands in Surat Thani province woke up with electricity back on at their homes, hotel rooms and businesses.

Channel 3 reported that power was restored at 4am on Friday, two hours after engineers tested the line connecting the islands with Surat Thani’s mainland. The repairs finished at 2am, it added.

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