National—
At 10:30 PM, on March 20th, 2024, Thai police officers received a missing person report from railway police officers as a young Canadian tourist went missing while on a Krung Thep Aphiwat-Chumphon-Kantang rapid train number 168.
The missing person was publicly identified only as Mr. Ralph, a 26-year-old Canadian tourist. Ralph had traveled with his friend heading to Chumphon. However, his friend, whose name was not revealed to the press, told the railway police that Ralph went missing at Mueang, Ratchaburi, after Ralph reportedly went to smoke at a staircase.
The railway police and Ratchaburi rescue teams searched the rail track on foot as they believed that Ralph might have fallen from the train.
However, after searching all night on the rail track from Photharam District to Mueang District, Ralph was not found.
On March 21st, Photharam police officers reported that locals found a foreigner’s body under a train platform in Photharam, Ratchaburi.
Upon the police investigation, the body had an ID card identified as Ralph, the missing person. The body had a serious wound on the left thigh and abrasions all over the body.
Moreover, on the rail track and the platform concrete block, bloodstains were found. The Pattaya News withheld his full name until his family and embassy could be fully contacted.
Initially, the police drew an assumption that Ralph fell into the rail track as he hit the platform concrete block with his left leg. The incident scene was under railway construction and the concrete blocks were exposed 50 centimeters away from the train and the area had little to no light source.
The victim might have not realized and hit his left leg with the concrete block and fell. The police further added that the victim attempted to crawl under the platform and lost a large amount of blood before death.
However, the police would transfer the body for further autopsy to determine the exact cause of the death before coordinating with the embassy to contact his family.
