A 22 year old woman from Norway died on Monday after falling ill at Phi Phi Island over the weekend. This happened a few hours after an American woman suddenly fell ill and died on her way to the hospital.
The cause of death has still not been confirmed, but doctors suspect severe food poisoning. Her friend also became sick over the weekend, but is recovering at a Phuket hospital.
The Norwegian woman was transported to a hospital in Krabi on Monday, but later died. According to the Foreign Ministry in Oslo has Thai police started an investigation in the death, as is common practice.
Another female tourist died on Sunday. Jill St. Onge from Seattle was staying at the same guest house as the Norwegian.
- My fiancée and I were on Phi Phi island as well this last week when she fell ill and passed away. It seems to be poison death as well, says Ryan Kells to Andaman Times.
The American couple has been holidaying in South East Asia for three months and were supposed to return home next week to the West Coast of the US.
According to her fiancé she suddenly fell ill.
- Jill and I had been on Phi Phi island for 6 days in a beach bungalow. We decided to move to an air conditioned room. We got the room at 11 am. Since it was our first with A/C we decided to hang out in the room all day. Jill was an excellent sleeper, says Ryan.
He ventured outside to do some errands and came back an hour later. Jill was still sleeping. They decided they were hungry and went to get a couple of burgers.
- The meat isn’t the most ordinary, but we had eaten them about four times already. I brought them back to the room. We sat and ate them there together. When we went out about an hour later is when Jill said she was felling ill. We stayed out a bit, says Ryan.
Jill was still feeling bad, so she said that she was going to go back to the room to lay down. Jill told Ryan he could hang our with friends they had met earlier.
- I stayed out for about 2 hours. When I went back to the room, Jill was vomiting. She still thought it might be the food. We lay together for about two more hours. That is when I started vomiting. I thought something was wrong.
He went outside and found a cart and wheeled Jill to the hospital.
- On our way to the hospital she started turning really blue and moaning loudly.
She died shortly after.
According to Ryan they did not go swimming that day and it seems like jelly fish poisoning is an unlikely cause.
- I don’t think the Thai authorities have done anything; the authorities just wanted to get her body off the island, says Ryan,
Ryan Kells believe there is a connection between the two cases.
- I would have to imagine these cases have to be related. I even think we were staying in the same guest house as the Norwegian woman. There has to be something done, says the grieving fiancée.
Ryan’s father and mother arrived overnight from the US and is staying in Bangkok.
- This must be brought to the attention of international news agencies to help stimulate an aggressive response by the Thailand authorities, says Mr. John Kells to Andaman Times.
The Norwegian and American embassies are following the case closely.
Thai police confirms they Norwegians and the Americans were staying at the same resort.
The remains of the American woman will be transported from Phuket to Bangkok today for an autopsy. A cremation is scheduled to take place in Thailand. The friend of the Norwegian woman is expected to recover fully and will return to Norway shortly.
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