Man jumps to death from BTS
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A 43yearold man jumped off the Bangkok Bang Na BTS station to his death yesterday. Police suspect he committed suicide over his illness.
Following the suicide report at 10.05am, found the body of Pornchai Meesapwattana on the road beneath the station. His backpack was on the station’s third floor platform on the Mor Chit route.
Station guards told police they saw the man crying and talking on a cell phone at a nearby bus stop before going to the station’s third floor. When he saw nobody was around he dropped his bag, climbed the fence and jumped over.
Relatives told police he had suffered from mental illness for nine years, eight of which he spent under treatment at the Somdet Chaophraya Hospital before moving to Manarom Hospital.
