The victim was one of five workers who were sent to fix a section of equipment but their boat capsized due to the raging current.

A rescue team took more than three hours to rescue the trapped man, while the other workers had safely swam to safety.

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Raging river

Rescue workers try to free a worker trapped amid rocks at a spillway on the Ping River in Kamphaeng Phet province on Tuesday.