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Nearly 40 tourists escaped unscathed when a diving boat they were travelling in caught fire near an island in Krabi late Saturday night. The boat commuters jumped into the sea when the fire started and waited for help. Fortunately, a nearby boat could rush in time to rescue all the stranded
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Social media users have praised foreign tourists for saving a 15-year-old Thai boy’s life using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on Sunday at Wat Tham Sua in Krabi province. Commentators also suggested more members of the public should be trained in CPR, while others recommended that the tourist attraction should be equipped with
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A Thai pickup driver is dead and 10 people injured, including four Chinese tourists, after he lost control on a curve and crashed into a van in Krabi. The front end of the pickup was badly damaged in the accident at Namkhao-Koh Lanta Road. About 20 metres away, the Klong Thom
Read More A man has admitted to keeping his son, who reportedly suffers from a mental disability, inside a large wooden cage at his house in Krabi for the past five years. The 38-year-old father, whose name was withheld, said he had to keep his nine-year-old son inside the cage at their house
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A man was killed by his elephant in Krabi's Khao Phanom district on Sunday. Police said relatives found the body of Amorn Morakot, 50, covered by tree branches near the spot where he had chained his 37-year-old female elephant in Moo 4 village in Tambon Na Khao. Full story: The Nation By The
Read More Krabi police have summoned a 67-year-old man to face charges after the girl filed a compliant that she has been raped by her stepfather for the past five years. Montree Khaokham, chairman of the Muslim for Peace Foundation’s Krabi branch, told reporters on Monday that he led the girl to file
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Officials of the Tarnboke Koranee national park in Krabi yesterday (Oct 1) reiterated it’s warning to tourists that they must not swim in the park’s waterfall for safety. They warned tourists of the danger in swimming in the waterfall as there was heavy rain in the area and the stream water
Read More Flood has receded in Krabi township this morning and the Petkasem highway is now reopened to normal traffic after heavy flooding submerged the province and turned the highway into a klong, impassable to all vehicles in the last several days. Krabi mayor Kirasak Phukaoluan said Monday that flooding was gone, leaving
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