Vietnamese mother, daughter drown off Phuket's Naithon beachPolice are seen at Naithon beach in Phuket after two Vietnamese tourists drowned on Sunday. (Photo: Achadtaya Chuenniran)PHUKET: Two tourists from Vietnam - a woman and her daughter - drowned while swimming in the sea off Naithon beach in Thalang district on Sunday morning. Police went to the scene to investigate and learned that three Vietnamese tourists, who were staying at the Pullman Phuket Arcadia Naithon Beach, went swimming off Naithon beach, ignoring the red flags. The woman was later identified as Hoang Hai Van, 52, and her daughter as Nguyen Chuc An, 16. Police sent their bodies to Vachira Phuket Hospital for an autopsy and notified the Vietnamese embassy of the incident.

Source: Bangkok Post July 31, 2022 13:21 UTC