A French tourist has died while trying to take a selfie at a waterfall in Thailand, tourism police said today. The accident took place yesterday afternoon on the island of Ko Samui in southern Thailand. The 33-year-old man fell from the waterfall Na Mueng 2.
A Spanish tourist died at the same location months ago, according to Budabol Wirianarangkul, a tourism police official in Samui. "There are already signs reading (no entry), as the area is very dangerous," he said. "Some tourists may want better pictures, but the area is steep and slippery there and the man slipped." "He saw a friend who was accompanied by the man taking pictures and falling," he said, from a height estimated at a three-storey house. Police have already contacted relatives.
Although no preliminary forensic report was issued, police believe the tourist died of a fractured skull.