Sixth-grader drowns in Phichit canal
A Phichit sixth-grader drowned while trying to swim across an irrigation canal, his body finally found 100 metres away on Friday morning, 18 hours later.
Phakawat Sae-ua, 12, a student at Wat Tha Bua Thong School, drowned in the same canal in Pho Prathap Chang district where he and his friends often swam.
The body was found under an irrigation pump pipe.
