{"id":20004,"date":"2025-07-25T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20004\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T02:14:09","slug":"australian-man-found-dead-in-phuket-thailand-hotel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/20004\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian man found dead in Phuket, Thailand, hotel room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An Australian man has been found dead in a hotel room on the Thai holiday island of Phuket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hotel staff found the body of a man in his early 20s on Wednesday morning, according to Reuters and local media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man had a bandaged arm because of a recent motorcycle crash and had died with his mobile phone on his chest, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tourists gather at Patong beach in Phuket, Thailand,\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/ba69a7d7556178cb6a8461508ee2946b\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The police said there were no signs of struggle or suspicious activity. (Reuters: Napat Wesshasartar)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">According to police Lieutenant Colonel Thanom Thongpaenm, the man was still on a call when the body was discovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The line hadn&#8217;t been disconnected and he had died like that,&#8221; he told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It appeared he had been on the call for about 12 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Authorities have yet to release the name of the man, who was born in India but had an Australian passport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia&#8217;s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is providing consular assistance to the family of an Australian who died in Thailand, a spokesperson has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Owing to our privacy obligations, we are unable to provide further comment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Australian man has been found dead in a hotel room on the Thai holiday island of Phuket.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,20859,1300,5023,44,20861,3725,20860],"class_list":{"0":"post-20004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-man","11":"tag-death","12":"tag-holiday","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-phuket","15":"tag-thailand","16":"tag-unknown-death"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}