{"id":11270,"date":"2024-09-03T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T05:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11270"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T05:42:06","slug":"new-zealander-dies-after-falling-out-hotel-window-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=11270","title":{"rendered":"New Zealander dies after falling out hotel window in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has confirmed a New Zealander has died in Pattaya, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Bangkok Post\u00a0<\/i>reported a man from New Zealand\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangkokpost.com\/thailand\/general\/2856317\/nz-man-falls-to-his-death\">fell to his death from a luxury hotel in Pattaya last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MFAT says it was providing consular assistance to the family, but would not provide further information due to privacy reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<i>Post<\/i>\u00a0said he was Akuhata Edward Robert Hammind, aged 36, and suggested drug use may have been a factor.<\/p>\n<p>He was reportedly seen shouting &#8220;help me&#8221; and appeared to be hallucinating before he fell seven storeys onto electric wiring.<\/p>\n<p>A number of people from different countries had died in Pattaya in recent months under similar circumstances, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/givealittle.co.nz\/cause\/help-bring-akuhata-home\">Givealittle page<\/a>\u00a0was set up by Hammind&#8217;s uncle Jonathan Poole to raise money to bring his body home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are heartbroken by this sudden loss and wish to bring him back to New Zealand so his family and friends can say their final goodbyes,&#8221; the page read. &#8220;The costs involved in bringing him home are significant, and we are reaching out for any support to help make this possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>~RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) has confirmed a New Zealander has died in Pattaya, Thailand. The\u00a0Bangkok Post\u00a0reported a man from New Zealand\u00a0fell to his death from a luxury hotel in Pattaya last week. MFAT says it was providing consular assistance to the family, but would not provide further information due to privacy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,222,208,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11272,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11270\/revisions\/11272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}