CHIANG MAI — 7 June 2026, A Chinese tourist mother abandoned her teenage daughter outside a guardhouse at a luxury housing estate in Chiang Mai’s Saraphi district on Sunday morning after a family argument, prompting police to intervene.
Pol. Lt. Thanang Wannasiri, an investigator at Saraphi Police Station, received a report at 07:30 that a Chinese tourist had left her daughter outside a guardhouse near a luxury village close to Xingsheng School in Chai Sathan subdistrict, Saraphi district.
Officers arriving at the scene found a Chinese woman aged approximately 18–20 sitting alone outside the guardhouse, visibly distressed. Village staff were providing moral support while police contacted Chiang Mai Tourist Police for assistance.
The young woman told officers she had travelled to Chiang Mai with her mother and the two had argued. Her mother, unhappy with the dispute, drove her to the location and left her there before disappearing.
Tourist police took the woman to the Tourist Police office, where authorities plan to contact her mother to mediate the dispute. Officers said the matter is a family issue and they hope to resolve it through mediation. If no agreement can be reached, the case will be referred to the Chinese Consulate in Chiang Mai.
