Police are trying to determine how a middle-aged Thai man drowned off the old South Pattaya pier.
The body of the man in his 40s was pulled from the sea Sept. 12. There were no obvious signs of an injury that would have led to the drowning, other than abrasions that likely occurred after death. He’d been dead for about six hours.
Police were not certain of the man’s identity, although he was wearing a Suvarnabhumi International Airport police volunteer shirt with the name Lt. Col. Narong Pijak on the back.
Police said that one of the deceased’s legs had been sucked deep into the sand and it took them over 20 minutes to get him free. They could only speculate on how the man died, presuming he walked out into the sand to urinate and stepped into a mud or sand hole that the couldn’t get out of.
