National park officials rescued three foreign tourists who got lost in the jungle in Koh Pha Ngan, Surat Thani province, southern Thailand, yesterday. All three are reportedly safe.
At 5.30pm, the Chief of Than Sadet National Park, Tikamporn Phenchom, received a call that three foreign tourists were lost in the jungle on the Khao Ra mountain and needed help.
Chief Tikamporn examined the coordinates from one of the tourists’ mobile phones and found that they were on a trail that was once used to walk up to the top of the mountain but is now unused and overgrown.
The chief assembled a search party of National park officials who went out looking for the tourists as the sun went down.
At 8.45pm, the search party found 30 year old Prasannatma Das Bhatt of British nationality, 44 year old Sandra Helena of Dutch nationality, and 35 year old Anne Pedder of British nationality. All…
