Cameroonian football player found dead in Prachuab Khiri Khan

PRACHUAB KHIRI KHAN, 22 June 2009 (NNT) – A Cameroonian football player was found dead as his body was discovered floating in the Bo Thong Lang Bay of the western province of Prachuab Khiri Khan.

The 21-year-old Cameroonian, later identified as Mr Elias Yannick was reported to have traveled to Thailand for his training with a football team of a well-known private university.

Yesterday, after his football match, he went for a swim in the Bo Thong Lang Bay area by using a swimming tube. He did not return.

15 Thai friends as well as police and local authorities tried to search for Mr Elias but the efforts were to no avail until the body was found this morning.

Authorities have contacted the Cameroonian Embassy in order to have the body returned to relatives of the football player for a burial.


-- NNT 2009-06-22

Cameroon footballer drowns

The body of a football player from Cameroon, west Africa, was found floating in Bang Saphan district in Prachuap Khiri Khan province on Monday. Police Captain Nattapol Tabtim, of Bang Saphan station, said the dead man was identified as Elias Yannick, 21.

He was found wearing football clothes and there were bruises on his face.

Police Captain Nattpol said Yannick took part in a training session with a university football team in Pathumthani and joined in a friendly game in Bang Saphan on Sunday evening. After the match, he went to swim at Ao Bo Thonglang and was not seen again. About 15 of his Thai friends notified the police after they failed to find him.

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http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/14...tballer-drowned


-- Bangkok Post 2009-06-22

Bruises on his face? So he was murdered? Punched out and left to drown?

Bruising on the face is common for drowning

This post has been edited by davejonesbkk: 2009-06-22 16:58:42

Well I didn't know that either. Sad story... sounds a bit strange if he was in his football clothes, as unlike some Thai's other people don't go swimming in jeans and long trousers.

Also didn't know there was a Cameroon embassy here..

Condolences to his family, friends and teammates.

Agreed very sad - only 21 years old, just starting out.

Cameroonian footballer drowns at Prachuab

PRACHUAP KHIRI KHAN, June 22 (TNA) – A Cameroonian footballer was found dead on Monday morning in the southern resort province of Prachuap Khiri Khan, some 300 kilometres southwest of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand.

Elias Yannick, 21, was presumed drowned in Ao Bo Thonglang beach in Bang Saphan District.

He was discovered in a sports outfit with cuts and scratches on his face.

According to the initial investigation, the victim came to Thailand to join a Thai university team from Pathum Thani province in Division 2.

On Sunday evening, Mr. Yannick participated in a friendship football match at Dongmaingam School’s field. He later went to swim at the beach using a float and then disappeared while swimming. During the evening more than a dozen of the victim’s Thai friends and local officials searched for his body until it was found the next morning.

Cameroon has no embassy in Bangkok, but the authorities will contact the embassy handling Cameroonian interests in Thailand to collect his body.


-- TNA 2009-06-22

Sad news

Condolences to his family and friends.

This is terrible news, a young man is gone who evidently had great promise and had worked his way out of a very tough country only to have this happen. I feel so sorry for his family when they find out about all this. Their journey to know what has truly happened to their son will be a impossible one.


This will be another shot in the foot for the entire Thai way of handling things, guaranteed. I would not be bothered by the Thai Health Care System or Justice System but it is Thailand itself which spends millions of dollars a year asking people to come here. When they invite people there is no health release as if one is venturing off into a dangerous land full of pitfalls and lacking any accountability.


My point in this case is very straight forward, the contradictions in the news story combined with the history of forensics in Thailand will leave everyone unenlightened as to whether this boy died as a accident or was murdered over a football game.