A Belgian man died after falling through the roof of his Jomtien Beach guesthouse during a repair job.
John Hoemlund, 64, suffered a broken neck in the Sept. 18 accident at the Royal Star Guesthouse near the Mae La Or Market.
His wife, 23-year-old Wanida Hoemlund, said her husband used to work in construction and had planned to have an Italian friend help him with replacing roof files. However, the Italian couldn’t come, so the Belgian went up on the roof to check out the situation himself.
A hefty man, Hoemlund stepped on a bad part of the roof and it collapsed, sending him and tiles falling to a third-floor room where he died.
John Hoemlund suffered a broken neck when fell through roofing tiles above his Jomtien Beach guesthouse.
