Young Vocational Student Walking To See Flood Falling From Sewer Pipe, Disappeared. Searched overnight, still not found.
On December 23, reporters reported that there was a teenager later known as Mr. Furkon, 21, a professional student at Pattani Vocational College. Fall into the drain in the alley near PTT gas station, Nong Chik Road, Ru Samilae subdistrict, Muang district, Pattani province, fell at 3:00 in the early morning after going out to observe the flood situation
When asked by a friend, Mr. Furkon said that he and his friends, including Mr. Furkon, 4 people came to see the flood at the scene of the accident. when you arrive in front of the alley He and his friend walked in unknowingly There was an open drain in the area. In addition, the water is almost 40 cm deep, making it impossible to see the underwater road. Because there are only 2 red barriers in that area. A friend walks and falls all over his body Friends try to help him, but can’t The swirling current sucked his friend’s body into the tube before his eyes. Until he is unable to help anything so he hurried to inform the checkpoint officer that he is in the area to help
relevant personnel Both disaster relief units, police, divers, rescuers brought equipment, machines and sandbags to block the waterway. to reduce the tide hoping to find Mr. Furgon’s body But the current is strong
Until 15:30, the officials are still unable to bring the drowned Mr. Furgon to the surface. Because the current flowing through the pipe is strong. Coordinated then by bringing sandbags to block around the drain and allowing divers to dive back. However, the authorities have closed all roads into and out of Pattani. that the authorities expedite the search for this man’s body
Then at 21:00 Acting Second Lieutenant Trakul Totham, Deputy Governor of Pattani Province, along with Muang Pattani District Sheriff, Provincial Security Guard, Water Police, Soldiers and Diving Suits. it envisaged several passages with personnel distributed in various points where the sewers can flow. As regards the point where the young man falls. At first it was not possible to dive. because the current is quite rapid. The staff could not resist the tide. so he has to yield Provincial and Administrative Security Bring barriers and bags to block the waterway. Block the tide to slow down. for divers to search again
Later, around 10pm, the tide slowed. The dive staff decided to descend to the drop point in the right tube. The drain is large, 2 meters wide and 2 meters high, where divers dive into the drain across the road. But not finding the young certified professional’s body until the start of the 2nd round, officials decided to dive left side. It is anticipated that there may be debris blocking the path and a body could be found. who dived in and found that the stream was not obstructed at all that it is an open drain and thinks that the body of a young graduate may flow into another channel of the drain So he decided to abort the mission. which included the search time from 4:00 to the end of the mission at 12:00, in total, it took more than 20 hours to search. Hundreds of villagers rose to support the officers.
The deputy governor of Pattani said so from today’s search In order But the man’s body has not yet been found. which officials blocked the waterway AND searched the sewers under both streets, it turned out there was still nothing. Who has summarized and prepared a plan to continue the search Who will resume the search at 8:00 on December 24, along the roadside, about 200 meters, who has assigned a mission that has been prepared expected to be found because the area downstream blocked the network
Then, on December 24th, Acting Second Lieutenant Trakul Totham, together with Mr. Sanan Sonthimuang, Deputy Governor of Pattani Province Muang Pattani Sheriff Pattani Provincial Security Guard, Police, Soldiers, Rusamilae Municipal Officers, Divers, Divers, Rescuers and people involved. jointly plan water blocks block sandbags for divers to continue searching for Mr. Furkon
image from Department of Public Relations of the Pattani Institute ,Sorayut Suthasanajinda, journalist
