AMERICANALMANAC (Jack Newsome) - Flash flood sweeps selfie-taking tourists off rocks at Thailand waterfall after they ignored warnings
Tourists posing for photos on rocks at a popular Thai waterfall were swept downstream by a sudden flash flood on August 15, seconds after park officers blew a whistle ordering them out of the water. The group of foreign visitors had waded into a restricted zone at Mae Sa Waterfall in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, […] The post Flash flood sweeps selfie-taking tourists off rocks at Thailand waterfall after they ignored warnings appeared first on American Almanac .
Tourists posing for photos on rocks at a popular Thai waterfall were swept downstream by a sudden flash flood on August 15, seconds after park officers blew a whistle ordering them out of the water. The group of foreign visitors had waded into a restricted zone at Mae Sa Waterfall in Doi Suthep-Pui National Park, near the northern city of Chiang Mai, when a wall of muddy water surged down the mountain at roughly 4:20 p.m. local time. Video footage captured by onlooker Arttie Martin shows the river rising in seconds, knocking several tourists off their feet and dragging them downstream as others screamed for help. One long-haired tourist can be seen trying to crawl across the torrent on hands and knees. Park rangers stationed at multiple…Open