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[Dick]

Remember that case last month about the two tourists who died on the same day while staying at the same Phuket hotel ? Here's the latest:

"NORWEGIAN police are reported to be keen to pursue the case of the two young tourists who died mysteriously on the holiday island of Phi Phi almost two months ago.Officers in the home town of one of the victims, Julie Bergheim, are said to be agitating for a second autopsy in an attempt to solve the riddle of the Laleena Guesthouse.

Other avenues of investigation so far have failed to explain what caused the deaths of Miss Bergheim, 22, and American Jill St Onge, 27.It was on the weekend of May 2-3, 2009, that both women fell ill at Laleena and later died within hours of each other in the small Phi Phi hospital. . .

According to people who say they have seen the results of autopsies conducted in Bangkok, the results are inconclusive.Police Lieutentant Pantanan Sangtong, who is leading the inquiry, told Phuketwan that he understood there were traces of medicines in both women. In Miss Bergheim, he said, the autopsy produced signs of medicine she had been taking, apparently for epilepsy. In Miss St Onge's case, he said, there were traces of pain-killers sometimes taken for joint-pain. . .

Yet to come are the results of laboratory tests on chemicals and cleaners of various kinds, sampled from the Laleena Guesthouse three weeks after the deaths. . .

In the 21st century, on a popular island tourist destination, two people cannot simply be recorded as dying, as one official has been reported as saying, in ''a freak accident.''There is a cause of death. There has to be one. If Thai investigators cannot determine what killed these two young women, perhaps the Norwegian police will."

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phi-phi-riddl...ng-death-11275/

[Gene]

According to a string of more recent investigative reports in the Phuket Journal, it now looks more and more like the young people who died at this PhiPhi hotel were killed by poison gas which may have been leaking from a poorly maintained air conditioners or baldy managed pest control spraying. The families of the deceased tourists have grown increasingly bitter over the failure of the Thai authorities to come up with definitive answers, saying that protecting the tourism reputation of Thailand seems to be the theme dominating the investigation.

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phi-phi-riddl...-torment-12075/