Australian tourist killed in Phuket armed robbery

[News Bandit]

Phuket, June 21 – One Australian tourist was killed while another was seriously wounded in an armed robbery on the grounds of their hotel in Phuket Wednesday night.

 Michelle Elizabeim, 60, was fatally stabbed in the compound of the Katathani Phuket Beach Resort, an upmarket tourist hotel at Kata Beach in the provincial seat. Her companion, not identified, was severely wounded and remains hospitalised.

A preliminary police investigation found that two men on a motorcycle, aged between 18-25 years old, followed the tourists as they walked back to their hotel from a restaurant.

One of the men snatched Ms Elizabeim’s handbag, but the victims fought back and the attackers stabbed them. The men fled and are still at large, but a surveillance camera captured their images.

 The two tourists arrived in Phuket yesterday afternoon and planned to stay for one month. hotel staff said they came to Phuket every year. (MCOT online news)
 

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