{"id":73042,"date":"2025-07-24T18:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/australian-tourist-found-dead-in-phuket-thai-hotel-room-ntwnfb"},"modified":"2025-07-24T18:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T09:34:52","slug":"australian-tourist-found-dead-in-thai-hotel-room-was-on-phone-when-he-died-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73042","title":{"rendered":"Australian tourist found dead in Thai hotel room was on phone when he died, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 21-year-old was discovered by housekeeping staff on holiday island Phuket<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Get our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl\">breaking news email<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.adjust.com\/w4u7jx3\">free app<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/series\/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl\">daily news podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Australian tourist has been found dead in a Thai hotel room, one day before his flight home.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old was discovered by housekeeping staff at a hotel on holiday island Phuket on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/jul\/24\/australian-tourist-found-dead-in-phuket-thai-hotel-room-ntwnfb\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 21-year-old was discovered by housekeeping staff on holiday island PhuketGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian tourist has been found dead in a Thai hotel room, one day before his flight home.The 21-year-old was d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73043,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73042\/revisions\/73043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}