Media: Chinese tourist killed in Thailand during a photo shoot
BANGKOK, 28 Jul — RIA Novosti. A thirty year old tourist from China died during a photo shoot on a background of sea waves on the island of Phuket in Thailand, said on Friday the Internet portal of the Phuket News.
The tragedy occurred in the area of Kamala beach. Chinese woman standing on the rock back to the sea, posing her husband, who she was photographed when suddenly a big wave washed her from the cliff and carried out to sea, the newspaper reports.
Husband and friends tourists tried to save her at the scene, rescuers were called, but when a woman found and picked up out of the water, she was already dead.
A police source quoted by the Phuket News, told the publication that the woman and her husband along with 12 other PRC citizens vacationing in a Villa of class “luxury” near the scene of the tragedy.
Many of the beaches in Phuket are now displayed red flags prohibiting swimming in the sea. In the rainy season, which lasts in the country from mid-may to October, the resorts of southern Thailand there are often storms and waves on the shore can sometimes reach a height of two and a half to three meters. In recent months, Phuket has killed several foreign and local tourists who ignored warning flags. As it turned out, dangerous not only swimming in a stormy sea, but being in the storm in the immediate vicinity, writes the edition.