New Zealand tourist dies while taking selfie over ‘death railway’


BANGKOK (The Nation/Asia News Network): A New Zealand tourist fell to his death from a local train over the World War II “death railway” in Kanchanaburi province on Tuesday (Dec 27).

Sai Yok Police Station was alerted at 11.50am that a foreign tourist had died after falling about 10m from a train to the ground below the death railway at Krasae Cave in Sai Yok district.

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