Police are still trying to determine if the death of a Finnish woman who allegedly jumped from the roof of a guesthouse in the Patong area of Phuket yesterday was a suicide.
Police received a call from local residents at 2:15pm on Monday after a foreign woman, identified as 19-year-old Ida Maria Bexar, had jumped from the fifth floor of the Good Dreams Guesthouse in Soi Nanai.
Bexar was discovered lying face down on a neighboring property’s roof.
“The victim was wearing a T-shirt and short jeans and we found her purse nearby. She had been dead for more than 10 hours before her body was found,” police said.
Her body was taken to Patong Hospital for doctors to determine the cause of death. The Finnish embassy and her family have been notified.
The victim’s boyfriend, who police declined to name, said they had an argument earlier that morning before Bexar was found dead.
The boyfriend said he left her in their room at Darisa Apartments, which is located next to the guest house, and he went to spend the night with his friend at Good Dreams Guesthouse.
“He [the boyfriend] thinks his girlfriend came to look for him at the guesthouse, then went up to the roof and jumped. He said that maybe she felt he had hurt her feelings so decided to take her own life,” he said.
Story: The Phuket News
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