Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
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Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
KANCHANABURI — A Japanese man taking a "selfie" on the famous River Kwai Bridge was seriously injured after being hit by a train in full view of hundreds of shocked tourists on Saturday morning.
Haruhisa Saito, 52, sustained broken ribs and head injuries after being struck by Thon Buri-Nam Tok train No 257 on the bridge in Muang district, said Pol Lt Wichai Srimuangthanachai, a deputy tourist police inspector in Kanchanaburi province. The incident was reported at 11.25am on Saturday.
Police rushed to the scene and found the train stopped on the track. The injured man had already been sent to a nearby hospital.
Police said that Mr Saito, the president of Silvec Co in Chon Buri, had taken his employees to visit Kanchanaburi for the holiday weekend. The businessman was walking along the bridge, part of the infamous World War II Death Railway, and stopped to take some photos.
While he was taking a selfie, he did not notice the train coming behind him. The train kept whistling, but he failed to hear it. When the train struck him, the impact threw him from the bridge to the ground about five metres below. Around 1,000 Thai and foreign tourists were visiting the area and many screamed in panic...http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... ng-tourist
Haruhisa Saito, 52, sustained broken ribs and head injuries after being struck by Thon Buri-Nam Tok train No 257 on the bridge in Muang district, said Pol Lt Wichai Srimuangthanachai, a deputy tourist police inspector in Kanchanaburi province. The incident was reported at 11.25am on Saturday.
Police rushed to the scene and found the train stopped on the track. The injured man had already been sent to a nearby hospital.
Police said that Mr Saito, the president of Silvec Co in Chon Buri, had taken his employees to visit Kanchanaburi for the holiday weekend. The businessman was walking along the bridge, part of the infamous World War II Death Railway, and stopped to take some photos.
While he was taking a selfie, he did not notice the train coming behind him. The train kept whistling, but he failed to hear it. When the train struck him, the impact threw him from the bridge to the ground about five metres below. Around 1,000 Thai and foreign tourists were visiting the area and many screamed in panic...http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general ... ng-tourist
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Re: Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
andy1 wrote:Karma or what
No , Train traveling too fast. It would never happen in Cambodia.
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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Re: Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
I was just laughing at this idiot, then walked out of my hotel room while on my phone, leaving my keycard inside.
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Re: Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
karmakazeandy1 wrote:Karma or what
Jesus loves you...Mexico is great, right?
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Re: Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
Millions of ghosts of Asian slaves and tens of thousands of Western POWs would be applauding. One of the worst war crimes ever committed along the length of the railway and all for nought. Thanks to US bombing it did not change anything about the outcome of the war. Fuck the Japanese miliatrists.
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Re: Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
As Mr. Sato was born on 1964, 19 years after the end of the war, I am not sure what makes him a "Japanese miliatrist[sic]".willyhilly wrote:Millions of ghosts of Asian slaves and tens of thousands of Western POWs would be applauding. One of the worst war crimes ever committed along the length of the railway and all for nought. Thanks to US bombing it did not change anything about the outcome of the war. Fuck the Japanese miliatrists.
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It takes one to know one, right.General Mackevili wrote:I was just laughing at this idiot, then walked out of my hotel room while on my phone, leaving my keycard inside.
Scarier than malaria.
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Re: Tourist Hit By Train While Taking Selfie on River Kwai Bridge.
I was thinking the same thingandy1 wrote:Karma or what
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