Diplomat killed in diving accident

Diplomat killed in diving accident

BANGKOK (Reuter): An economic and commercial officer at the
Swedish embassy in Bangkok was killed when he was cut by the
propeller of a tour boat while on a diving trip, an embassy
official said yesterday.

The man was severely cut up by the propeller when he jumped
into the water from the rear of boat while the engine was on,
embassy official Ogen Rosden said in a telephone interview from
Phuket, about 650 kilometers south of Bangkok.

The dead man, whose name was withheld, was part of a 20-member
tourist group on a diving trip near the Similan Islands about 40
kilometers from the southern Thai resort of Phuket.

"It was an accident since the man said before he died that it
was his fault he jumped from the boat while the engine was on,"
Rosden said.