PATTAYA — At 09:40 a.m. on October 9, the Sawang Boriboon Thammasathan Pattaya City Rescue Radio Center received a report of a foreign tourist being assaulted and injured on Pattaya Beach, opposite Soi 13/4.
When the rescue team arrived, they found three Indian tourists helping their friend who was staggering, with blood covering his face and a severe gash on his left eyebrow. They were frantically asking for help for their injured friend, but refused the first aid. Instead they requested that the police be called to the scene. The rescue team then contacted the Pattaya City Police Station.
The Indian tourist’s friends pleaded with the police officers, raising their hands in a wai gesture, asking for help in catching the perpetrator. They agreed to have the injured person taken to the hospital, stating that they didn’t trust anyone other than the police.
The police then took the injured Indian man to Pattaya City Hospital and advised the group to file a formal complaint with the investigating officers to pursue legal action against the attacker.
Upon questioning, a Thai woman nicknamed “A” (pseudonym), aged around 25-30, a friend of the person who punched the Indian tourist, revealed that before the incident, they were sitting on the beach. A group of Indian tourists who had been drinking alcohol under a coconut tree approached them and asked to take pictures.
Initially, she and her female friend allowed it without thinking much of it. The groups took turns taking photos, but on the fifth round, an Indian man approached again, this time embracing and groping them, touching one woman’s stomach and attempting to kiss her. This angered that woman’s husband, leading to an argument and the punch to the Indian man’s face.
A witness recorded a video of the moment when the Indian man was punched and lay unconscious on the beach, with narration suggested that the Indian group had harassed someone’s wife before being punched.
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