Mother-of-two Michelle Smith, struggled to hold her bag and was slashed with a sharp knife. A 10cm knife wound to the heart killed her soon after as two men sped off on a motorcycle about 10.30pm local time. [Thailand 2230 hours 20 June 2012; 0130 hours Melbourne time 21 June 2012 / map: Thailand, Phuket Island .]
A neighbour at the couple s Butler, Western Australia home this morning said Mrs Smith s stunned husband Geoffrey Smith was coping as best he could and was trying to organise the return of his wife s body to WA.
Mrs Smith had been walking with a friend, a 42-year-old woman, near their hotel complex in Kata Noi Bay , on Phuket s west coast, about 10.30pm last night when they were attacked by two men who approached on the bike.
A [ Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ] DFAT spokesman hotels at carolina beach told PerthNow : "We can confirm the death of a 60-year-old Australian woman from Western Australia in Phuket hotels at carolina beach and are providing consular assistance to her family.
Both women were in a group of 10 travel agents from Perth who had arrived on Phuket on Monday to inspect the five-star Katathani Beach Resort , which dominates the small bay at Kata Noi , south of Patong and Karon , on Phuket s west coast.
Prominent Perth travel agent and former West Australian Football League (WAFL) star George Michalczyk , proprietor of Motive hotels at carolina beach Travel , said he understood the travel agents had just completed a hotel inspection and had dinner before the incident occurred on Kata Beach , which was quieter than the main nearby tourist area of Patong.
Perth travel agent Kylie Daff , who is with the group in Phuket, posted on Facebook this morning: Guys it may have hit local news I am ok with a supportive group of people Can t update further hotels at carolina beach just yet.. will keep post when ok to do so .
To turn around and attack someone so viciously and kill them in the street in front of all this group from what I gather, all the staff and all the people in the street were just blown away with what happened.
Two of the travel agents later watched in sorrow, hugging each other and crying, as the body of their holiday companion was shifted from a makeshift resting place in a loading dock at the resort to an ambulance.
The brutal hotels at carolina beach murder of a tourist will shock the entire holiday island of Phuket, just as it shocked staff and guests at the Katathani last night. The owner of the Katathani, Sombut Atiset hotels at carolina beach , came to see what had happened.
Australian Honorary Consul Larry Cunningham sped to the Phuket International Hospital in Phuket City to check the condition of the wounded woman before joining Phuket police in interviewing her at the resort.
hotels at carolina beach The Katathani on Kata Noi bay is one of the quieter parts of Phuket, some distance from the noisy swirl of crowded Karon and Patong and one of the least likely places on Phuket for this kind of brutal murder.
A young German visitor had her thumb cut off in a similar savage incident in Krabi Town , a province nearby, earlier this year. Her thumb was successfully reattached in surgery on Phuket and four youths were quickly arrested and charged.
Lately, talk on Phuket has been about the mysterious deaths of two Canadian sisters whose bodies were found on Friday in a room on Phi Phi , another holiday island a ferry ride from Phuket, or the six drownings of tourists that have occurred on Phuket beaches in the space of one month and a day.
Phuket police are likely to pull our all stops in their efforts to find the killers. The holiday island made international news in February when Hollywood actor Jeremy Renner was in a group attacked by axe and knife-wielding security guards at a pub in Phuket City.
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