A 32-year-old electrical contractor worker has died after apparently slipping and falling into a drainage pipe beneath Punnawithi BTS skytrain station in Bangkok’s Phra Khanong district on Friday morning.
The Bangkok Fire and Rescue Department was alerted via the 199 emergency hotline at 7.04am that a worker involved in an underground electrical pipe installation project had fallen into a drainage pipe beneath the BTS station on Sukhumvit Road, in the Bang Chak area of Phra Khanong district.
The man was believed to have slipped and fallen into the pipe, which was about two metres deep and 80 centimetres wide. Rescue officials immediately launched a search and rescue operation.
At 8.55am, divers from the Poh Teck Tung Foundation’s underwater rescue unit located the worker’s body inside the drainage pipe and were able to remove the deceased.
The body was handed over to the relevant authorities for further procedures.
The operation was supported by officers from Phra Khanong police station, Phra Khanong Fire and Rescue officials, Poh Teck Tung volunteers and the foundation’s underwater rescue unit.