Thais rule out murder, drugs in Kiwi's death

[Coss]

Authorities in northern Thailand say homicide and drug overdoses have been ruled out in the mysterious deaths of several foreign tourists, including New Zealander Sarah Carter, earlier this year.

 

[color:brown]{ also ruled out are nuclear explosion, meteor impact, elephant sitting on head, drowning, immolation and vaporisation }[/color]

 

But the officials from the city of Chiang Mai told foreign consular officials on Thursday that investigations into the seven deaths are only halfway done.

 

[color:brown]{ the measuring tape was got out and it was read at 132cm which is half the 264cm required for a full set of investigations }[/color]

 

The victims were women from New Zealand, France and the United States, a Canadian man, an elderly British couple and a Thai tourist guide, six of whom were staying at the same hotel in January and February.

 

Carter, 23, fell violently ill on February 3 while staying at the Downtown Inn in Chiang Mai and died a day later.

 

Her two New Zealand friends and travelling companions, Emma Langlands and Amanda Eliason, also fell ill but later recovered.

 

An investigation by TV3's 60 Minutes found trace elements of the chemical chlorpyrifos, used to kill bed bugs, in the hotel room Carter was staying in, prompting calls for Thai authorities to investigate.

 

However, Chiang Mai Public Health Office deputy chief Surasing Visaruthrat said the chlorpyrifos theory "carries little weight", the Bangkok Post reported.

 

"We can't jump to a conclusion that toxin exposure was the cause of the death because the substance was allegedly found in the hotel room alone, not in the victim's body."

 

Surasing said experts would meet again after receiving test results of samples collected from the victims' bodies, which were sent for testing at laboratories in the United States and Japan.

 

 

 

[Hugh_Hoy]

But the officials from the city of Chiang Mai told foreign consular officials on Thursday that investigations into the seven deaths are only halfway done.

 

 

"Halfway done" or "half-assed" done? There is no friggin' way to know for sure whether you are 10%, 40% or 90% unless you have already reached a conclusion and know the ending. It ain't a book, unless the investigation is scripted.

 

HH

[Bangkoktraveler]

If the tourist had the customary 200 baht in their pocket, it definitely means it was from robbery.

 

No drugs precent so that eliminate drugs.

 

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So it had to be the bedbugs.

 

Every kid in the USA has been told one time or another to 'not let the bedbugs get you'. I guess some just never learn.

[Bangkoktraveler]

When are they going to have the 8th victim?

[Flashermac]

 

Maybe it was like Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" (original title banned ).

 

 

[ozpharlap]

The problem with the world these days is there are to many people, and one death, or even 7 mean nothing these days. As governments have learnt that people just don't care, not in the sense they do not value an individual's life, but that there is nothing an individual or even a group of people can do or say these days that will mean one iota, less so in the short term and nothing in the long term. So, governments just don't bother to even try these days to rectify wrongs unless some one in power is loosing a buck