PHUKET: A tourist guide has been hit by a train and seriously injured at a railway tracks market in Maeklong, near Bangkok.
In the latest of a series of deaths or injuries involving trains and tourists in Thailand, the guide, Worawut Sribaotong, 40, was struck by the last carriage as the train rolled through the Folding Umbrella market near Bangkok on Boxing Day.
Trains pass through the market eight times a day, with stallholders flinging back their awnings from over the tracks and yelling: ''Get back! Do you want to get killed?'' to increasing numbers of tourists.
There are no safety measures and the full width of the trains extends well beyond the tracks.
Tourists are often grouped together in bunches and those nearest the rail lines are sometimes too close.
Stallholders told Phuketwan that it was a risky business and they'd prefer it if the tourists did not come in such numbers.
Khun Worawut, 60, was leading a group of Taiwanese tourists when struck by the last carriage of a slow-moving train.
He suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken leg.
A Dutchman was killed by a tourist train in Kanchanaburi province on December 24 when he fell from a carriage ladder.
It was the third death involving the Thonburi-Nam Tok route train in about a month, the Bangkok Post reported.
On November 26, a Greek diplomat was killed when she fell from a train and her head was crushed on a rail track in Sai Yok.
A Thai woman was killed early this month after being hit by the tourist train from Bangkok to Sai Yok waterfall.
In the latest of a series of deaths or injuries involving trains and tourists in Thailand, the guide, Worawut Sribaotong, 40, was struck by the last carriage as the train rolled through the Folding Umbrella market near Bangkok on Boxing Day.
Trains pass through the market eight times a day, with stallholders flinging back their awnings from over the tracks and yelling: ''Get back! Do you want to get killed?'' to increasing numbers of tourists.
There are no safety measures and the full width of the trains extends well beyond the tracks.
Tourists are often grouped together in bunches and those nearest the rail lines are sometimes too close.
Stallholders told Phuketwan that it was a risky business and they'd prefer it if the tourists did not come in such numbers.
Khun Worawut, 60, was leading a group of Taiwanese tourists when struck by the last carriage of a slow-moving train.
He suffered broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken leg.
A Dutchman was killed by a tourist train in Kanchanaburi province on December 24 when he fell from a carriage ladder.
It was the third death involving the Thonburi-Nam Tok route train in about a month, the Bangkok Post reported.
On November 26, a Greek diplomat was killed when she fell from a train and her head was crushed on a rail track in Sai Yok.
A Thai woman was killed early this month after being hit by the tourist train from Bangkok to Sai Yok waterfall.
