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Boy, 6, drowns in waste treatment pond

PHUKET: A six-year-old boy, Yuthakarn Limpek, died after he fell into a pond at the Patong wastewater treatment plant on Rat U-Thit 200 Phi Soi 2 at about 10 am today (July 13).


By Paritta Wangkiat

Friday 13 July 2012 05:25 PM


Yuthakarn had gone to the pond with a friend who raised the alarm some time after he fell in.

Kusondharm Rescue Foundation staff retrieved the boy’s body at 2 pm, after two hours spent pumping water from the pond.