A New Zealand tourist has fallen to his death from a moving train on the World War II “death railway” in Kanchanaburi province in western Thailand.
Patrick Ward, 45, had come with a group led by a tour guide from River Kwai bridge and rode the train yesterday to see the death railway, also known as the Thai-Burma Railway.
Ward opened a door of the train and tried to take a selfie to show the view outside but he slipped on the steps at the door and fell to his death, The Strait Times reported.
Police were alerted just before noon (local time) that a foreign tourist had died after falling about 10m from a train to the ground below the death railway at Krasae Cave in Sai Yok district.
Ward’s fall was captured on video by a tourist in the area.