Environment minister Varawut Silpa-archa is furious with a Thai diving instructor who posted photos of a triggerfish that he just killed in Ko Ran Pet diving spot off the coast of Chumphon province.

Sergeant Major First Class Somchai Thanabat, 32, has been praised as a hero after he died trying to save a trainee who failed to throw a live grenade at the Thanarat military camp in Prachuap Khiri Khan's Pran Buri district on Tuesday morning.