Indian tourist found dead after falling down Samui waterfall
published : 11 Nov 2024 at 13:05
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Supapong Chaolan
SURAT THANI - Searchers have found and recovered the body of an Indian tourist who fell from a cliff while walking to the top of a popular waterfall on Koh Samui.
Local officials and rescue volunteers from several units on the resort island were involved in the search. They found 28-year-old Sreemany Debjit's body snagged between tree limbs and a rock on the lowest level of Na Muang 2 Waterfall.
The dead man's friend said he and Debjit had been climbing the trail to the summit of the waterfall on Saturday. Debjit slipped and fell off the cliff while taking photos. Unable to find Debjit, his friend had hurried back down the trail and sought help.
The search began on Saturday but was cut short by heavy rain that sent a torrent of water pouring over the falls. It resumed on Sunday.
Debjit's body was taken to Koh Samui Hospital.
Na Muang 2 Waterfall is about 500 metres from Na Muang 1 in Koh Samui district in Surat Thani province. It is 80 metres high, according to the Samui municipal office.
Vocabulary
- cliff: a steep side of an area of high land - หน้าผา
- cut short (verb): to make something last for less time than planned - ตัดเวลา
- hurried: going fast, doing something quickly - รีบ, รีบเร่ง, รีบไป
- limb (noun): a large branch of a tree - กิ่ง
- pour: to flow or enter in large amounts - ไหล
- resume: to begin again after stopping for a period of time - เริ่มอีกครั้ง, กลับมาอีกครั้ง
- snagged (adj): having become caught or torn on something rough or sharp - ติด
- sought (past tense of seek): tried to get/do something; asked for something - พยายามได้, พยายามได้มา
- summit (noun): the highest point; the highest point of a mountain - ยอด; ยอดสุดของภูเขา
- torrent (noun): a large amount of water flowing rapidly and violently; a large of amount of something that is suddenly released - กระแสน้ำเชี่ยว,การไหลพุ่
- trail: (n) a route that is followed for a particular purpose -
- unit: a part of a company or organisation that carries out a particular function; a group of people who work or live together, especially for a particular purpose - หน่วย,กอง,กลุ่ม
- volunteers (noun): people who are not paid for the work that they do; someone who does something willingly without being required to - อาสาสมัคร
- waterfall (noun): water falling down from a high place - น้ำตก
