At least two people died at this past weekend’s Wonderfruit Festival held southeast of Bangkok in Chonburi province.
A massive, post-lockdown celebration with a turnout dwarfing previous years, the festival was swarmed with party-goers across 50 hectares at the Siam Country Club, where at least two died including an Indonesian wakeboarder and veteran Bangkok DJ who was performing at the festival.
An officer at Chonburi’s Nong Prue Police Station said that Indonesian national Kimo Rusna was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
According to an online profile, Rusna grew up in Australia, where he fell in love with wakeboarding. In 2015, he opened Bali’s first wake park, which hosts local and international competitions. A manager at Bali Wake Park said Kimo was no longer involved with the park.
“He died at hospital because of a heart attack,”…
