
An 80-year-old Canadian woman has been found dead on Kata beach on Phuket, with the cause of the death initially said to be heatstroke.
A passer-by told police he first saw the tourist sunbathing with her face down at 10.30am on Wednesday. When he next checked at 1.30pm, he saw that she had not moved and her body had started to show some green bruises.