An eighty 12 months old Thai woman fell into the Nan River in Pichit province, northern Thailand, and floated for 3 kilometres before she was rescued by an excellent Samaritan yesterday.
At 4pm, 61 yr previous Bancha Simadua, the proprietor of a paint store, was fishing in the Nan River close to Wat Ratchachang Kwan when he all of a sudden saw a naked body float past him, which he assumed was a corpse.
Bancha instantly called the police to the scene, jumped in his boat and drove out to the “corpse.” When he received nearer, he saw the aged lady’s eyes blink open. Shocked, he realised she was still alive and wanted assist.
He said there was a chunk of wooden supporting the woman’s back preventing her from drowning. He pulled her up onto his boat and brought her ashore and waited for the authorities to arrive.
Bancha later found out that the aged lady’s name is Grandma Boonchuey, from the Paktang subdistrict in Phichit’s Mueang district. Factors floated down the river for over three kilometres. She is now safe and has returned residence.
Grandma couldn’t recall how she ended up in the river. Reporters travelled to her house to inspect her and located that she lives alone, her husband died a few years in the past. Reporters said she suffers from “forgetfulness.”
Neighbours stated that Grandma Boonchuey in all probability went right down to the Nan River to fetch water to water her vegetation. She doesn’t bathe in the river as neighbours pump water into a bath so Grandma can bathe at her house, they stated.
If Bancha hadn’t spotted Grandma while he was out fishing and acted rapidly to save her, Grandma Boonchuey would have most probably drowned without anyone seeing or figuring out what happened to her..