Young boy killed in fall at Hat Yai hotel
A five-year-old boy visiting his Malaysian father died when he fell from the eighth floor of a hotel in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Thursday night.
Police said the accident happened at 7pm at a well-known hotel in central Hat Yai.
The boy fell while his mother, Siriporn Saekuay, 35, was in the ground-floor lobby and his father was having a shower.
Police said CCTV footage showed the boy leaving his room and pushing open the nearby fire exit door.
Once in the fire exit the boy could not pull the door open and fell while trying to find a way to get back inside the hotel.
His mother said she and relatives had gone from Phichit to visit her Malaysian husband and they were staying in four rooms at the hotel.
Police are investigating whether the fire exit contributed to the death.
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