According to local media, the 52-year-old stopped breathing shortly after getting an oil body massage.
SINGAPORE: A Singaporean man has died in Phuket following a massage at Patong Beach while on holiday.
The shop’s staff asked the police and medics for help when Mr Lee failed to regain consciousness after being given CPR, said Patong police chief Chalermchai Hernsawad. Although no cause of death has yet been established in the case of Mr Lee, the incident occurred the same weekend a Thai singer died after she received three massages in about a month.Chayada Prao-hom had posted about her condition on Facebook in early November, saying she sought treatment at the massage parlour in Udon Thani for body aches.
After her third session, she experienced swelling and bruises which developed into numbness in her chest and stomach. She eventually was unable to lift her right arm and said her body was functioning at less than 50 per cent.
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