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Returnee plunges to death at quarantine hotel

A Thai woman who returned to the country from South Korea plunged to her death at an eight-storey hotel functioning as a Covid quarantine facility in Bang Kapi on Sunday afternoon.

Police at Hua Mak station were informed of the death at about 2pm. The hotel, the name of which was withheld, is on Soi Rama IX 31. The body landed on the second-floor balcony.

The woman, 51, departed on a repatriation flight from South Korea at 11.10pm on Thursday and checked in at the hotel at 1.52am on the same night for a 14-day quarantine. Her first test for Covid-19 was negative.

Police were investigating the case.

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