chuckwoww Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 The incident occurred on Wednesday night on a yacht moored in the sea off Kata beach. After being informed of a shooting on a yacht, police led by Chalong superintendent Pol. Col. Samarn Chainarong rushed to the scene and found a New Zealand man Pierre Alain Oberson badly wounded. The man was sent to Phuket International Hospital. A girlfriend of the victim who declined to give out her full name told police that while she was on board with Mr. Alain, a foreign robber who wore a diving suit, climbed up to the boat and used a gun in a plastic bag to force the victim to give him valuables. Mr. Alain fought back and got shot in the chest and leg while the robber was also shot and pushed off into the sea during the fight. They then fired the firework for a distress signal. A man, Weeraphol Jaiyen who was on board another tourist boat heard the sound and came to help. Police used a long tail boat to search for the robber and found his body floating dead nearby with no identification papers. http://news.prd.go.th/news_detail.php?newsid=215900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 It seems your headline is incorrect there Chuck. "Phuket police impose strict patrols for yachts after a foreign yacht skipper was attacked by a foreign robber who died." And the pix at your link support the above: Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfastish Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 so what do you think will happen to the guy who killed the robber? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Right. My bad. There seems to be some confusion about what happened. Here's the Phuket Gazette version. The frogman was farang and the New Zealander is now Swiss... KARON: Chalong Police are investigating the bizarre killing, apparently in self-defense, of an unknown frogman who attacked a Swiss yacht owner and a Thai woman late Wednesday night. The details of the case, as provided to the media at a press conference yesterday afternoon by Chalong Police Superintendent Col Saman Chainarong, are based on the eye-witness account of 25-year-old Trat native Porntip Pradit. Also present at the press conference were Police Region 8 Deputy Commissioner Maj Gen Tavat Boonfueng and Phuket Provincial Police Deputy Commander Col Paween Pongsirin. Col Samarn told the media that K. Porntip called police about 11:30 pm on Wednesday from a yacht anchored about 500 meters offshore from the Club Med Resort at Kata Beach. Speaking in a panicked voice, she told police that her boyfriend, who had been shot in his left shoulder, was in urgent need of medical assistance, Col Samarn said. Chalong Police responded to the distress call by arranging for a longtail boat to take them to the vessel. K. Porntip fired three flares from the boat to inform police of her location. Swiss national Pierre-Alain Oberson, 50, was rushed to Phuket International Hospital, where he remains in the Intensive Care Unit. It will be at least five days before he can be questioned, Col Samarn said. About 70 meters from the vessel, police recovered the body of a lightly bearded, middle-aged Caucasian male wearing a black diving suit, complete with swim goggles and fins. He had sustained two large wounds: one to his left eye and the other to his left wrist. Doctors at Vachira Phuket Hospital had confirmed that the cause of death was blood loss from the wound to his wrist, Col Samarn said. He explained that under questioning K. Porntip had told police that she and Mr Oberson were aboard the yacht that night when they noticed a man with a bag swimming toward the vessel. Intrigued, they began to talk with the man and then invited him aboard. The man said he enjoyed swimming and diving at night, he said. The man remained aboard for about one hour, during which time the group drank beer and coffee together while the man inspected the vessel. â??He stayed about one hour and then said, â??I have to go.â?? Then he said goodbye,â? Col Samarn quoted the woman as saying. Rather than leave, the man reached into his bag and pulled out a homemade gun and a knife. With the gun in one hand and the knife in the other, the man ordered K. Porntip to tie up Mr Oberson with rope and gag him with black electrical tape, said Col Samarn. As she began to do so, both she and Mr Oberson exchanged glances before simultaneously charging at the man. In the ensuing fight, the man was hit twice by Mr Oberson with a boat hook, he added. The man then fired his gun once, hitting Mr Oberson in his left shoulder, before jumping overboard. Police are still seeking leads to discover the identity of the intruder and are especially interested in his homemade gun, recovered from the seabed by Marine Police around noon yesterday. As the gun was unlike any they had seen before â?? it fired with a switch rather than a conventional trigger â?? they suspect the man may have been a weapons expert and will contact Interpol to see if his description matches the profile of a known international terrorist, Col Samarn said. Immigration are also trying to identify the man, he said. Anyone with information that could help in his identification is urged to contact Capt Theerawut Thep-Luen at Chalong Police Station, he added. Col Samarn said that Mr Oberson had come to Thailand with his wife and two young children, a boy and a girl, all three of whom were staying at a resort on Koh Racha Yai when the incident took place, he said. Suspicious that the unknown diver might have been the same man who robbed the Karon branch of Siam Commercial Bank of 420,000 baht last June, police presented photos of the man to staff there. He did not fit the description of the bank robber, Col Samarn said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samak Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 does not look like the victim is in ICU! http://www.blick.ch/news/ausland/taucher-attacke-auf-weltumsegler-80368 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fidel Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Jesus H. Christ! What kind of a nutcase was that? Hugh Hoy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I hope you don't expect me to answer that. I'm having trouble seeing Hugh in a wet suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 How bizarre this sounds like a scene from a Bond movie.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 I hope you don't expect me to answer that. I'm having trouble seeing Hugh in a wet suit. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 An interesting aside could the yacht owner explaining to his wife, who was ashore in the resort with their children, what the TG was doing on the boat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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