American found dead on Pattaya hotel balcony
published : 19 May 2026 at 07:33
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Amporn Sangkaew
A 50-year-old American man was found dead on a sixth-floor hotel balcony in Pattaya, his head hanging down outside the railings, early Monday morning.
Passers-by reported seeing his body to Pattaya police about 1am.
The dead man was on the balcony of a seven-storey hotel on Jomtien 2 Road. He was wearing only grey jeans and slippers.
Police said the man appeared to have been dead for at least three hours. There were no signs of violence in the room or on his body.
Police were waiting for an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
The man's name was withheld pending notification of relatives.
Vocabulary
- autopsy: a medical examination of a dead person’s body to find out why they died - การชันสูตรศพ
- balcony: a place where you can stand just outside an upper window. It sticks out from the wall of a building - ระเบียง
- notification (noun): the act of giving or receiving official information about something - การแจ้ง
- passers-by (noun): people who are going past somebody/something - ผู้คนผ่านไปมาตามถนน
- pending: waiting to be dealt with, settled or completed - ยังค้างอยู่, ซึ่งยังไม่จบสิ้น, อยู่ในระหว่าง
- relatives (noun): members of your family - ญาติพี่น้อง
- slippers: loose soft shoes that you wear in the house - รองเท้าสวมเดินในบ้าน
- violence: physical force with the deliberate intention of causing damage to property or injury or death to people - ความรุนแรง, การใช้กำลังทำลาย
- withheld (verb): to deliberately not give something to someone - ไม่เปิดเผย, ไม่อนุญาต, ระงับ, ถอนกลับ
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