Visitor goes missing in flooded Pattaya
published : 24 Sep 2026 at 14:48
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Amporn Sangkaew
A man believed to be a foreigner went missing after his group fell into a canal while they were wading through a flooded alley in Pattaya early Thursday morning.
Heavy downpours started in Pattaya at about 11pm on Wednesday and continued into early Thursday morning. Floods hit Pattaya 3 Road, a road parallel to the railway tracks, Soi Bua Khao and the Walking Street.
At about 5am three men, believed to be Koreans, were wading through floodwater on Map Yai Lia 45 Road when two of them fell into a drainage canal.
A 17-year-old eyewitness said he grabbed one man and another was able to hang onto a handrail, but the third man was swept away by the strong current of the canal.
Local residents said the visitors might not have known there was a canal as the area was flooded.
Vocabulary
- canal (noun): a waterway, a long hole in the ground made to send water from one place to another - คลอง
- current: a strong movement of water in one direction - กระแสน้ำ
- downpour: a lot of rain in a short time - ฝนตกหนักมาก, พายุฝน
- drainage: the process of taking away of water or other liquids from an area - การระบายน้ำ
- parallel: when the distance between two lines, etc. is the same all along their length - ขนาน
- swept (past form sweep): moved quickly through an area; moved with powerful force - เคลื่อนไปอย่างรวดเร็ว, พัดพาเอาไป
- wade: to walk with an effort through something, especially water or mud - ลุย เดินท่องน้ำ หรือ โคลน
