Pour la iéme fois des touristes ont été attaqués et dévalisés à Phuket...depuis un certain temps déja entre kamala et Patong ainsi que Raway et kata....
Je mets ce post car je trouve que c'est de plus en plus souvent et prévenir de faire attention en motorbike et aux sac à main en bandouliére...
Le mode opératoire est tjrs le méme, a savoir vous roulez seul ou avec un passager et dans un endroit sombre de la route la moto qui vous suit vous rattrape et un des mec vous jette par terre et vous menace d'un revolver et ou d'un couteau...
Il n'y a pas longtemps un resident Norvégien est mort de plusieurs coups de couteau !
Friday, October 12, 2007
Another attack in Rawai, Aussie and Brit mugged
RAWAI: An Australian woman was pulled off her motorcycle and robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning in the same area where Norwegian tourist Simen Knudsen was killed two weeks earlier.
The victim, 27-year-old Australian Sooz Lomas, arrived in Phuket about two weeks ago to study Thai boxing at the Rawai Muay Thai camp.
About 2:30 am on Sunday, Ms Lomas left the nearby Icon Bar with an English friend named Paul, also 27. As Paul drove the motorbike and Ms Lomas rode pillion, the pair were approached from behind by two men on another motorbike.
Ms Lomas said the attack happened off the main road from Rawai to Kata.
“I don’t know the roads very well and neither did the guy who was driving. I think we may have taken a wrong turn, because we ended up somewhere that was very dark. I think we were followed from the bar, ” she said.
“It was very soon after we left, and there were a bunch of people standing outside as we were leaving. We were going slowly, about 30kmh. Then two guys came up from behind, on the right. One of them reached out and grabbed my bag, pulling me off the motorbike.
“I came off and hit the ground face first, while the driver skidded along for a bit. I hit my head, so I was still a bit confused about exactly what had happened. One of the attackers went up to Paul, pointed a gun at him and asked for money. So he emptied his pockets.
“They both had guns. I was lying face down on the ground. I didn’t really know what was going on, but one of the guys came up to me saying, ‘Money! Money! Money!’ I wasn’t really sure what was happening, but I didn’t want to give up my bag straight away. Then I felt my bag being grabbed and they cut the strap and pulled it off me, ” Ms Lomas said
Once they had taken all her possessions, the gunmen left quickly, getting away with about 1, 500 baht in cash, credit cards, a mobile phone and camera – in addition to the money stolen from Paul.
RAWAI: An Australian woman was pulled off her motorcycle and robbed at gunpoint early Sunday morning in the same area where Norwegian tourist Simen Knudsen was killed two weeks earlier.
The victim, 27-year-old Australian Sooz Lomas, arrived in Phuket about two weeks ago to study Thai boxing at the Rawai Muay Thai camp.
About 2:30 am on Sunday, Ms Lomas left the nearby Icon Bar with an English friend named Paul, also 27. As Paul drove the motorbike and Ms Lomas rode pillion, the pair were approached from behind by two men on another motorbike.
Ms Lomas said the attack happened off the main road from Rawai to Kata.
“I don’t know the roads very well and neither did the guy who was driving. I think we may have taken a wrong turn, because we ended up somewhere that was very dark. I think we were followed from the bar, ” she said.
“It was very soon after we left, and there were a bunch of people standing outside as we were leaving. We were going slowly, about 30kmh. Then two guys came up from behind, on the right. One of them reached out and grabbed my bag, pulling me off the motorbike.
“I came off and hit the ground face first, while the driver skidded along for a bit. I hit my head, so I was still a bit confused about exactly what had happened. One of the attackers went up to Paul, pointed a gun at him and asked for money. So he emptied his pockets.
“They both had guns. I was lying face down on the ground. I didn’t really know what was going on, but one of the guys came up to me saying, ‘Money! Money! Money!’ I wasn’t really sure what was happening, but I didn’t want to give up my bag straight away. Then I felt my bag being grabbed and they cut the strap and pulled it off me, ” Ms Lomas said
Once they had taken all her possessions, the gunmen left quickly, getting away with about 1, 500 baht in cash, credit cards, a mobile phone and camera – in addition to the money stolen from Paul.

Australian tourist Sooz Lomas, 27, is still recovering from her injuries after being pulled off her motorbike by gun-toting and knife-wielding thugs in the same area of Rawai where Simen Knudsen was killed two weeks earlier.
Paix à son ame...

Norwegian sea captain Simen Sparre Knudsen (pictured above) had been coming to Thailand for 30 years before he was stabbed to death on September 23. The case, headline news in Norway, again puts the spotlight on tourist safety in Phuket.
Ps. photo du Norvégien tué qui laisse femme et enfants derriére lui...