On Friday night, bystanders reported of a foreigner who was heard counting to three in English, before jumping off of Mount Zwegabin in Hpa-An.
Officials from the Hpa-An police and fire departments spent roughly two days trying to locate the body of the man — who was later identified as a French national — and successfully found it on Saturday evening.
According to an initial report, he died of head injuries.
Police inspector Nyi Nyi Myo told Coconuts Yangon, “We located a ‘smartcard’ on him that showed that he was a French national. It also listed his father as his emergency contact, and had his name, phone, and email. The man also had on him the name of another woman and the hotel at which she was staying. These were the two pieces of paper that we found on his body.”
“When we contacted the French embassy in Yangon, it turned out that the woman had also filed a missing persons report for the deceased individual, so the two cases collided.”
It is still unclear as to why the man jumped.
The body is currently being held at the Hpa-An General Hospital while officials make the necessary arrangements to have it transported back to France.
Coconuts Yangon reached out to the French embassy in Yangon, who declined to comment on the incident.
