PHUKET: A Russian tourist has been electrocuted near a swimming pool as his wife and two young children frolicked close by at a Phuket resort tonight, say Phuket police.
A second man, a resort manager, was treated in hospital after trying to help the eletrocuted man, said Colonel Boonlert On-Kang, of Chalong Police Station.
Hotel staff switched off the resort's electricity before tending to the stricken men by the light of torches. Attempts to revive the tourist failed.
The Russian, aged 45, was leaving the resort's pool area about 8pm as his wife and two young daughters continued to splash at the Dewa Karon Beach Resort about 8pm.
The man, still wet, suffered a fatal shock as he grasped a siderail near the pool, Phuketwan has been told. F & B Manager Surasak Pechtsud, 33, went to help the tourist and suffered shock.
Russian Fedor Samsonov and his family checked in at the resort on February 12, Colonel Boonlert said. They intended to stay until March 13.
The hillside Dewa Karon Resort, in Soi 24 off Patak Road, about a kilometre from the beach, has been open since December 7.
The 49 apartments at the luxury resort surround a central 65-metre pool with a restaurant on an island in the middle. The resort's brand managers also run another Phuket resort, the Dewa Nai Yang Beach.
Khun Surasak was being treated tonight in Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket City. Mr Samsonov's body was in Patong Hospital.
On February 18, at another resort in Karon, a group of Scandinavian guests were gassed when chlorine was added in the wrong proportion to the swimming pool filtration system.
Thirty-seven guests were ferried from the Phuket Orchid Resort and Spa to Patong Hospital, then transferred to other Phuket hospitals.
One guest, pregnant Swede Annika Ober Hrnic, 26, was briefly kept in hospital as a precaution while the others were all quickly discharged.
A British tourist was electrocuted in Patong's famous Soi Bangla walking street last year in a manner that has never been fully explained.
In 2004, a 12-year-old Russian girl was electrocuted at the Dusit Laguna Resort when she lay down wet near a swimming pool on poorly insulated power wires.
A second man, a resort manager, was treated in hospital after trying to help the eletrocuted man, said Colonel Boonlert On-Kang, of Chalong Police Station.
Hotel staff switched off the resort's electricity before tending to the stricken men by the light of torches. Attempts to revive the tourist failed.
The Russian, aged 45, was leaving the resort's pool area about 8pm as his wife and two young daughters continued to splash at the Dewa Karon Beach Resort about 8pm.
The man, still wet, suffered a fatal shock as he grasped a siderail near the pool, Phuketwan has been told. F & B Manager Surasak Pechtsud, 33, went to help the tourist and suffered shock.
Russian Fedor Samsonov and his family checked in at the resort on February 12, Colonel Boonlert said. They intended to stay until March 13.
The hillside Dewa Karon Resort, in Soi 24 off Patak Road, about a kilometre from the beach, has been open since December 7.
The 49 apartments at the luxury resort surround a central 65-metre pool with a restaurant on an island in the middle. The resort's brand managers also run another Phuket resort, the Dewa Nai Yang Beach.
Khun Surasak was being treated tonight in Vachira Phuket Hospital in Phuket City. Mr Samsonov's body was in Patong Hospital.
On February 18, at another resort in Karon, a group of Scandinavian guests were gassed when chlorine was added in the wrong proportion to the swimming pool filtration system.
Thirty-seven guests were ferried from the Phuket Orchid Resort and Spa to Patong Hospital, then transferred to other Phuket hospitals.
One guest, pregnant Swede Annika Ober Hrnic, 26, was briefly kept in hospital as a precaution while the others were all quickly discharged.
A British tourist was electrocuted in Patong's famous Soi Bangla walking street last year in a manner that has never been fully explained.
In 2004, a 12-year-old Russian girl was electrocuted at the Dusit Laguna Resort when she lay down wet near a swimming pool on poorly insulated power wires.
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