The woman was pronounced dead late Tuesday at a private hospital on the island after the attack during a nightime swim at Lamai beach.
“Doctors said she died due to poison from a box jellyfish,” Lieutenant Thanakorn Patnankaew, a tourist police officer on the island, said.
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