Police interrogate the female tour agent at Karon station in Phuket. (Photo: Achadthaya Chuenniran)
A Phuket travel agent seen attacking a Chinese tourist in a TikTok video has claimed he punched her first in a dispute over a refund.
The video shows a dispute between the Chinese tourist and a Thai woman berating him in Thai. She then kicks him and cuts his arm with a small knife.
According to reports, the 36-year-old tourist paid a 5,000-baht deposit for a 9,000-baht tour package for his family from the Blue Ocean Travel Company for a one-day trip to the Similan Islands. However, the tour agency did not show up on Jan 31 as arranged.
The tourist could not reach the travel agent and believed he had been scammed. He reported the…
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